Personality Characteristics and Cognition to Military Life of Some PLA New Recruits from One-Child Families

Objective To learn personality characteristics and cognition to military life of recruits form one-child families in order to provide appropriate mental health care.Methods A total of 3574 recruits with full personal information in some troops in 2012 were tested by 16 personality factors(16PF) and a self-designed questionnaire about personality characteristics,feelings and cognition to military life.1391 recruits of one-child family were designated as study group and 2183 recruits form non-one-child family designated as control group.Then results of the two groups were compared.Results The scores of factors A,B,E,F,H,I,N and X2 in study group were significantly higher than those of the control group(P0.05);The proportion of recruits with poor mental health in the study group was 0.9,lower than that of 1.7% in the control group(P0.05).There was no significant difference in the feelings cognition to military life between the two groups(P0.05).Conclusion There is no difference in cognition to military life between the two groups,but there are a few differences in personality characteristics between the two groups.It suggests that the recruits form one-child family should not be regarded as a special group,and at the same time the mental health of the non one-child group should not be ignored.