Anxiety and Depression in Recruits:Screening and Exploring for Influencing Factors

Objective: To evaluate the level of anxiety and depression of recruits,and explore the influencing factors.Methods: 1642 male recruits were required to fill out self-rating anxiety scale(SAS),self-rating depression scale(SDS) and an additional questionnaire.Results: ①90.1 percent recruits reported to have no anxiety feeling,while 8.1 percent had mild anxiety and 1.8 percent had moderate to severe anxiety;80.6 percent recruits reported to have no depression feeling,while 14.2 percent had mild depression and 5.2 percent had moderate to severe depression.②SAS and SDS scores correlated significantly with the factors of interpersonal relationship,family environment,status of rest,communication,single-parent family and condition of honor.③An important factor influencing anxiety and depression was only-child/non-only-child.Conclusion: 9.9 percent recruits had anxiety symptoms and 19.4 percent had depression symptoms.Only-child/non-only-child and interpersonal relationship are the main factors influencing negative emotion.