The Relationship Between Personality Traits,Coping Styles And Psychological Health Of Naval Aviation Soldiers

The goal of this research is to study The Naval Aviation Soldiers'status of Personality Traits,Coping styles and Psychological health ,and the impact of Personality Traits and Coping styles on Psychological health. And at last the research will find out whether personality traits can impact psychological health through its impact on Coping styles.150 one-year Soldiers were chosen by random for this research through questionnaires of EPQ,SCL--90 and Coping Styles Scale. The data is disposed by SPSS 12.0. The result showed that:(1) The scores of each factor's in SCL--90 of Naval Aviation Soldiers are lower than the Chinese norms for the army, especially significant in obsessive-compulsive,disorder,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,hostility,paranoid ideation. But the scores are higher than the National norms, especially in anxiety and psychoticism.(2) Through the test of EPQ ,the research finds out that each dimension of Naval Aviation Soldiers'personality traits are better than the Chinese norms for the army, but the difference is not significant. The Naval Aviation Soldiers'are apt to extrovert and stable of the emotion.(3) The study of the Naval Aviation Soldiers'Coping Styles finds out that they often choose the mature coping styles of resolving problem—appeal and rarely choose the immature coping styles of remorse—fantasy—retreat.(4) The study of the correlation between personality traits,coping styles and psychological health finds out that both the two factors are significantly correlated to the psychological health. This can indicate that both Personality traits and Coping styles can impact psychological health. Especially personality traits are significantly correlative with psychological health and the three factors of resolving problem,remorse and appeal of Coping Styles are significantly correlative with psychological health.(5) When the personality traits is chosen as the independent variable, coping styles as the dependent variable to process the stepwise regression, the conclusion shows that that the two dimensions (E,P) of personality traits can effectively forecast the dimensions (resolving problem) of coping styles, R square is 48.7%;the two dimensions (E,L) of personality traits can effectively forecast the dimensions (remorse) of coping styles, R square is 14.6%; the dimensions (P) of personality traits can effectively forecast the dimensions (appeal) of coping styles, R square is 20.5%; the three dimensions (E,P,L) of personality traits can effectively forecast the dimensions (fantasy) of coping styles, R square is 18.6%; the three dimensions (E,P,L) of personality traits can effectively forecast the dimensions (retreat) of coping styles, R square is 16.1%; the three dimensions (E,P,L) of personality traits can effectively forecast the dimensions (rationalization) of coping styles, R square is 13.7%.(6) when personality traits and coping styles are chosen as the independent variables, and psychological health as the dependent variable to process the stepwise regression, the conclusion shows that the three dimensions (E,P,N) of personality traits and the three dimensions (resolving problem,appeal,rationalization) of coping styles can effectively forecast the psychological health.The conclusion of this research is that the three dimensions of personality traits—E, P, L can impact the psychological health through their impact on the three dimensions of coping styles—resolving problem,appeal,rationalization. The conclusion supports the hypothesis of this research.