A Related Study On Social Support And Family Expressed On Military With Mental Maladjustment

In 1989,WHO announced that "people should have strain capacity, and a strong ability to adapt to environmental changes,no matter what changes occur in.interpersonal relationships people can always maintain emotional stability,and maintain the balance of the social and physical environment",which is one of ten health standards.So that mental maladjustment is an important component of health status.Mental adjustment is an important factor of fighting stamina.Mental maladjustment not only results in mental distress of military personnel, but influences fighting stamina.According to the available data,there is not a survey on mental maladjustment by randomized cluster sampling from the whole army,so it is innovative.RESEARCH OBJECTIVES To know the status of mental maladjustment and to explore related factors of military personnel's maladjustment.RESEARCH METHODS 3865 military persons of armed forces were tested by randomized cluster sampling from the whole army, including 3078 armies(79.3%),389 navies(9.8%)and 398 air-forces (10.3%).The military mental maladjustment questionnaire(MMQ),Social Support Rating Scale(SSRS)and Family Expressed Emotion Scale(FEES) were carried out.All the data was analyzed by Student's t-test, ANOVA,linear correlation and stepwise regression. RESULTS(1)Adaptation status of military personnel were different: Air-force were more adaptable than navy and army.The scale of behavior,emotion,interpersonal,environment and total scale are(3.55±3.08),(1.78±1.47),(2.45±2.06),(0.91±1.02),(8.71±6.12).Common soldiers suffered from less adjustment disorder than advanced officers,the total score and interpersonal score of the officers (9.67±6.93 and 2.86±1.92)were higher than the soldiers(8.41±6.08 and 2.40±2.02)(P＜0.01).(2)Maladjustment had a significant association with social support and family expressed emotion,(r=0.228～0.423, P＜0.01),and maladjustment was also associated with arms of service and the rank.(r=-0.089～-0.035,P＜0.05).CONCLUSIONS(1)On the whole,air-force were most adaptable, navy were more adaptable,and army were less adaptable.Air-force were more adaptable than navy and army and common soldiers suffered from less adjustment disorder than advanced officers.(2)This study implied that social support and expressed family's emotion were the major influence factors of the maladjustment,and the arms of service as well as the rank were minor influence factors.(3)The MMQ was a quantification implement to evaluate military personnel's maladjustment.