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Objective To explore the relationship between avoidant personality disorder and trait coping style,especially the mediating effect of positive mental characters. Methods A sample of 8 500 male recruits was assessed with personality diagnostic questionnaire?4+( PDQ?4+) , positive mental characters scale for recruits(PMCS?R) and trait coping style questionnaire(TCSQ). Results The scores of avoidant personality disorder group were lower than control group on wisdom((3.41±0.77) vs (3.76±0.74)),courage ((3.62±0.76) vs (4.05±0.78)),humanity((3.59±0.75) vs (3.98±0.72)),justice((3.64±0.75) vs (4.02 ±0.76)),temperance((3.58±0.85) vs (4.01±0.83)),transcendence((3.77±0.72) vs (4.13±0.71)),posi?tive mental characters((3.60±0.66) vs (3.99±0.62)) and trait coping style((32.74±6.71) vs (36.61± 6.23)),while negative coping style score was higher than control group((30.87±6.91) vs (22.79±6.96)) respectively,with statistical significance( all P<0.01) . Avoidant personality disorder had significantly negative correlation with positive mental characters and trait coping style( r=-0.323,-0.320,all P<0.01) ,and signif?icantly positive correlation with negative coping style ( r=0.579, P<0.01). Positive mental characters had significantly positive correlation with trait coping style( r=0.548, P<0.01) ,and significantly negative corre? lation with negative coping style( r=-0.289, P<0.01). Hierarchy regression analysis showed that positive mental characters mediate the relationship between trait coping style ( positive coping style,negative coping style) and avoidant personality disorder ( the value of mediating effect was 50.07%,6.36%) . Conclusion ?Recruits’ avoidant personality disorder affects trait coping style not only directly,but also indirectly through positive mental characters.
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Objective To explore the relationship between personality and depression,especially to investigate mediating effect of positive mental characters.Methods A sample of 1 933 male recruits was assessed with eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ),positive mental characters scale for recruits (PMCS-R) and self-rating depression scale (SDS).Results The scores of introversion-extroversion,psychoticism,neuroticism,positive mental characters and depression were 55.26±10.59,42.85±7.25,42.35± 11.67,3.80±0.64,0.45±0.11,respectively.There were correlations among personality,positive mental characters and depression in recruits (P＜0.05).Regression analysis indicated that introversion-extroversion,psychoticism and neuroticism predicted depression directly,and it could explain 42.6％ of the total variance (F=476.28,P＜0.05).Hierarchy regression analysis showed that positive mental characters mediate the relationship between personality (introversion-extroversion,psychoticism,neuroticism) and depression (the mediation effect was 0.22,0.19 and 0.11 respectively,P＜ 0.05).Conclusion Recruits' personality affects depression not only directly,but also indirectly through positive mental characters.
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Objective To explore the mediating effect and moderating effect of positive mental characters in the relationship between childhood abuse and depression among recruits.Methods 1925 recruits aged from 16 ～24 were investigated using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-28 item Short Form (CTQ-SF),Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Positive Mental Characters Scale for Recruits (PMCS-R) through random cluster sampling.Results The scores of emotional abuse,physical abuse,sex abuse,emotional neglect,physical neglect,depression,positive mental characters were 6.11±1.69,5.49±1.32,5.61±1.45,9.15±3.66,9.57±2.93,0.45±0.11,3.80±0.64,respectively.There were correlations among childhood abuse,depression and positive mental characters (P＜0.05).Emotional neglect,physical neglect and emotional abuse could explain 28.6％ of the total variance of depression (F=256.72,P＜0.05).The positive mental characters partially mediated the relationship between emotional neglect,physical neglect,emotional abuse and depression (mediating effect were 0.19,0.15 and 0.09,respectively),and it could only moderate the relationship between emotional neglect and depression (F=24.73,P＜0.05).Conclusion Childhood abuse not only directly but also indirectly affects depression through the positive mental characters;meanwhile the positive mental characters can change the relationship between childhood abuse and depression.