Effect Of Stress Reduction Program On Mental Health Of Soldiers

Soldiers were confronted with many stressors in military settings in peace time, which have important effect on their mental health. It attracted more and more attention of researchers and governors of military. Many preventive psychological intervention programs were developed to help soldiers to cope military stress more efficiently, then to improve their mental health status. Rational-Emotive Education was a preventive psychological intervention program which was widely used to help young people to deal with psychological problems in classroom settings. But there are still not related experimental researches on soldiers in our nation. This research proceeds with the investigation on mental health of the soldiers and studied the effect of stress reduction program on mental health of the soldiers.The procedure and the objectives of this study are:(1) To investigate the mental health status, coping styles of the soldiers, and to provide the foundation for the establishing of psychological intervene model. 428 soldiers were chosen randomly and were investigated by using Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) Coping styles questionnaire.(2) To study the effect of stress reduction program on the mental health status and coping styles of soldiers. 174 soldiers were...