Research On Psychological Stress And Its Correlative Factors Among Civil Aviation Pilots In Mainland China

The focus on the current study was to investigate the relationships among psychological stress, social support and psychological symptoms (anxiety, depression) and job satisfaction among civil aviation pilots in Mainland China. That's to say, it was intended to prove that psychological stressors were the predictive factors of psychological symptoms (anxiety, depression) and job satisfaction. Furthermore, this study aimed to find out that social support could intervene between psychological stress and psychological symptoms (anxiety, depression) and job satisfaction as the main-effect model and the buffering model.This study was composed of two parts. The first part was to construct the questionnaire. It was based on the previous study and the interview study as well as the principles of psychological testing. The constructed questionnaire was the Psychological Stress Questionnaire among Civil Aviation Pilots (PSQ-CAP). The second part was to establish the predictive model of psychological symptoms and job satisfaction. Data were collected from samples from civil aviation pilots and the procedures of data processing were as follows: To analyze the relationship between psychological stress and psychological symptoms and job satisfaction by building up Structural Equation Modeling; To explore the main effect and the buffering effect of social support by using path analysis and hierarchical regression analysis; To study whether subjects' characteristics could affect the investigated variables by using independent-sample t test and one-way analysis of variance.The main conclusions of this study were:1) The Psychological Stress Questionnaire among Civil Aviation Pilots (PSQ-CAP) in this study measures mental stress among civil aviation pilots by six aspects: life events, workload, colleague relationship, aviation safety, work environment, career development. The reliability and validity of all subscales were good. The PSQ-CAP can be used for the study about mental stress of civil aviation pilots.2) All six dimensions of mental stress significantly predicted anxiety; the dimensions (workload, colleague relationship, aviation safety, work environment, career development) significantly predicted depression; the dimensions (workload, colleague relationship, career development) significantly predicted job satisfaction.3) Social support could intervene between mental stress and psychological symptoms as the main-effect model and the buffeting model.4) Parts of the demographic variables and work-background variables could affect mental stress and job satisfaction significantly; all the demographic variables and work-background variables could not affect anxiety and depression significantly.