Investigation of Anxiety-depression Changes in Different Task Stages and Their Relationship with Personality Characteristics of Training Military Personnel Rush into Plateau
Objective To investigate the changes of anxiety and depression of training military personnel rush into plateau in different task stages and their relationship with personality characteristics.Methods A total of 700 training military personnel rushed into plateau(at an altitude of 4200 m)were conducted with a longitudinal follow-up survey by the state-trait anxiety inventory(STAI),self-rating depression scale(SDS)and Eysenck personality questionnaire(EPQ),the characteristics of change of anxiety and depression of training military personnel rushed into plateau during the mainland gathered period,plateau cantonment period,plateau exercise period,and return to the station period were ana-lyzed and the correlation between training military personnel's anxiety and depression and personality characteristics were observed.Results ① There was significant changes in different task stages in STAI and SDS scores of training military personnel rushed into plateau(all P<0.01);the interaction effect between different introversion and stability personality and the four stage of rush into plateau was statistically significant(all P<0.01).② There was significant changes in dif-ferent task stages in STAI and SDS scores of extroverted and intervening military personnel(P<0.01);introverted and intervening military personnel's scores of STAI and SDS in gathered period were significantly higher than those of extro-verted military personnel(all P<0.01).③ There were significant differences of STAI scores among each task stage in each emotional stability military personnel(all P<0.01).There were significant differences of SDS scores between the e-motional stable military personnel and the intervening military personnel(all P<0.01).The STAI and SDS scores of e-motional unstable military personnel were significantly higher than those of emotional stable military personnel and inter-vening military personnel(all P<0.01).Conclusion There are significant differences in anxiety-depression of trainig mil-itary personnel rush into plateau and there is a significant correlation between emotional characteristics and personality.Introverted and emotional unstable military personnel are more prone to have anxiety-depression.
Rush into plateauTraining military personnelAnxietyDepressionPersonality characteris-tics