Research on mental health status and its related factors of recruits stationed on islands

    MA Haiª²Ying, XIAO Rong, ZHANG Xiaoª²Yuan, ZHANG Yiª²Lin

    1Department of Psychology,First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China£¬2Infection Control Department£¬the 81th hospital of PLA, nanjing, 210002, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To study the mental health status and its related factors of the recruits who will station on islands. METHODS: One hundred and six new recruits were assessed with SCLª²90, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS), Selfª²esteem Scale and Selfª²designed life events Scale. Compared with the norm of Chinese new recruits, their mental health status was assessed and the social psychological factors were analyzed. RESULTS: All the factor scores of the SCLª²90 in the new recruits who will station on islands were higher than the norm of Chinese new recruits, and there were significant differences in the factors of obsessiveª²compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, hostility and psychoticism. Their mental health was positively correlated with their personality of neuroticism and psychoticism, negative coping style and life events, and was negatively correlated with the degree of selfª²esteem. CONCLUSION: The mental health status of the new recruits who will station on islands are worse than that of the common new recruits. Life events, neuroticism, negative coping style, introvert and extravert are the main factors affecting their mental health. ......