A Study On The Relationship Among Personality Traits, Coping Styles And Mental Health Of New Students In Fire Command

BackgroundsIn recent years, the attention to students’ mental health status who were frommilitary command school had become many subjects and fields’ hotspots, such asmilitary science, management, education, organizational behavior, psychology, and soon. Among numerous influencing factors, student’s personality characteristics and hiscoping style played a significant role.Investigative AimsDuring decennary educational and working practice, the author had discoveredthat to some degree, students coming from different grades had put up diverse mentalhealth status, and that had remarkable individual differences. Thus the author chosethe new student group who enrolled in September,2014as object of study,investigated intensively the relationship towards their personality characteristics,coping style and mental health status, being aimed at providing theoretical basis andoperational suggestion for concrete psychological health education and psychologicalworking practice.Investigative MethodsThe primary research method of this study was questionnaire survey. The authorapplied the means of cluster random sampling to extract421new students (effectivesamples) as research samples, conducting the inquiry intensively via using SCL-90,EPQ and CSQ. In following steps, the author accomplished the works of datareduction and statistic analysis, in line accordance with research need, alsoimplemented T-Checkout, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and multivariateregression analysis, and set up a relation model of SCL-90, EPQ, and CSQpreliminatily.Investigative Results and Conclusion1.The findings of SCL-90: There were13.78%new students existingpsychological problems with different ranks, or unhealth psychic reactions. But ingeneral, The new student group’s mental health status was favourable; New students perceived a lot of unhealth psychic reactions which mainly focus onobsessive-compulsive symptom, stubborn, sensitive of interpersonal relationship,depression, anxiety, somatization, etc.; Compared with The Norm of NationwideNormal Adults, The Norm of Armymen, The Norm of Cadets, The Norm ofNationwide Undergraduates and the survey scores of students from CPAP CommandSchool, new students had higher scores in some determinants includingobsessive-compulsive symptom, stubborn, depression and anxiety; In dimensions ofgender,age and educational degree before enrolled, there were remarkable differencestowards the mental health status of new students.2.The findings of EPQ: In new student group, the personality characteristics ofmost of them waved around the middle scope. There were rarely extreme personality;The groupmental personality characteristics of new students presented some traits,such as extroversion, enthusiasm, clear-up, active, higher excitability in nervoussystem, higher adaptability, emotional instability, a certain amount of emotionaltendency, and so on; A portion of new students showed the higher scores in somedeterminants which including Psychoticism(P), Nervousness(N), and Lie(L);Compared with The Norm of Adults Group, new students appeared remarkableextroversional personality; In dimensions of the only child or not, and diversehomeplace, there were remarkable differences towards new students’ personalitycharacteristics.3.The findings of CSQ: The new students demonstrated the coping tendencywhich was solving problems——rationalization——illusion——seekinghelp——withdrawing and keeping off——self-accusation; Compared with The Normof Military Officer and The Norm of Soldier, new students appeared some copingcharacteristics, for example, courageous, positive and optimistic. Meanwhile, theyalso showed some possible common problems in armyman group, which werelacking coping skills and problem-solving strategies; A portion of new studentsappeared some coping problems of intense self-esteem, intense independance, weakin cooperation with others and the out-of-balance in attribution mechanism.4.The findings of correlation analysis and multivariate regression analysistowards SCL-90,EPQ, and CSQ: There was correlativity towards new students’ personality characteristics, coping style and mental health status; To some extent, newstudent’s scores rooted in the determinants of Psychoticism(P), Nervousness(N) andLie(L) can forecast his habitual coping style; New student’s habitual coping style caninfluence the rise and the fall of his mental health level; By means of checking out viathe formula of mesomeric effect significance, we discovered that the level of newstudent’s Lie(L) can influence his mental health status straightway, the personality ofNervousness(N) can induce that he would adopt immature coping style, then lead tothe fall of his mental health status.Discussion towards the Research1.Compared with sophomores and juniors, towards the new students, one of theimportant factors which can influence their mental health status was circumstances.2.In accord with one’s specific personality characteristics, theobsessive-compulsive symptom which presented from new students projected theirapproach-avoidance conflict between the achievement motivation and the awe offailure.3.The new students’ remarkable psychic reactions, such as stubborn, sensitive ofinterpersonal relationship, depression, anxiety, projected that they had a certainamount of negative emotion. And they habitually adopted the coping style which gavethe more attention to one’s emotion.4.The new students’ factor scores from stubborn and sensitive of interpersonalrelationship reflected that they were easier to encounter the puzzles of emotionaladjustment and interpersonal relationship.5.New students’ personality status projected that they had the trait basis to modelthe self-recovery personality.6.Part of new students’ personality characteristics put up some genderdifferences, such as the tendency of transference, the emotional revealing, thetendency of comformity, the status of emotional stability; and so on.7.The lowest score in the determinant of self-accusation in CSQ prompted usthat we should pay attention to their out-of-balance in attribution mechanism whichrooted social cognition and the happening of depression.8.The connection of new students’ personality characteristics, coping style and mental health status may relate to individual’s cognition and self-agent, individual’sconscious self-control and causual attribution, individual’s self-conception andindividual’s coping toward psychological stress.9.The conclusion of correlation analysis towards SCL-90,EPQ, and CSQrevealed that the new student’s personality characteristics, recognition condition andadjustment level advanced the development of his mental health status jointly. Amongall factors, we should think highly of the intermediation coming from one’s copingstyle and correlative cognitive elements.