Research on characteristics of affective status in military personnel and affective assessment methods

    WANG Yiª²Niu, GUO Hui, WANG Xiaoª²Wei£¬MA Hui, LUO Yueª²Jia

    1 Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, 2 Army Aviation Command Ministry, Headquarters of the General Staff£¬PLA, Beijing 101114, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To investigate the correlation of state anxiety, trait anxiety, and positive and negative emotional states in young military servicemen. METHODS: Following surveying of the Positive and Negative Affective Scales, Stateª²Trait Anxiety Inventory in 112 military servicemen, the correlations between affective experience, anxiety liability and emotional states were compared in order to assess their mental condition.RESULTS: The scores of negative emotion was significantly correlated with that of state anxiety or trait anxiety(P<0ª±01),and the correlation coefficient between negative emotion and trait anxiety was larger than that between negative and state anxiety. There was significant negative correlation between positive affect and trait or state anxiety. Compared with servicemen,service women were found to have higher scores in state anxiety, trait anxiety and negative affect, but lower scores in positive affect.CONCLUSION: There is significant correlation between affective and anxiety status, and military women are more liable to negative emotion and anxiety state than servicemen. ......