Personality and Mental Health of the retired Military Officers / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:to study the relat onship between personality and mental health in retired military officers Method:178 retired military officers were assessed with EPQ and SCL-90 Result:1 The stable personality type,especially introversive stable type was the most common type in our sample 2 Total score and subscores of SCL-90 were lower than Chinese norm The subscore of depression increased with age,while other subscores had no this trend 3 SCL-90 score was significant different between officers of different types of personality,those with stable personality had lower scores of SCL-90 than those with unstable type Conclusion:mental health of retired military officers is good,most of them belong to introversive stable type in personality