Affective style characteristics and the relationships between affective style, resilience, positive and negative affect, cognitive attention in military medical students

Abstract

Objective To identify the affective style characteristics and the relationships among affective style, resilience, positive and negative affect and cognitive attention in military medical students. Methods Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale(ANPS), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale(CD-RISC), Chinese version of Positive and Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS-C) and Attention to Positive and Negative Information Scale(APNIS) were surveyed in 1014 military medical students. Results (1) Between male and female students, there existed significant difference in the scores of fear and anger (P<0.05). There existed significant difference in the scores of fear, anger, playfulness and sadness in students with different adaptation.(2) There were significant difference in resilience, positive and negative affect(34.95±5.07 vs 29.82±6.22, P<0.01), cognitive attention between positive and negative affective style group.(3)Positive affective style factors had an obvious positive correlation with resilience, positive affect, positive/others and positive/self(0.078≤r≤0.342, P<0.05), but not with caring and positive/self.Negative affective style factors had an obvious positive correlation with negative affect, negative/others and negative/self(0.153≤r≤0.337, P<0.05), but not with anger and negative affect. Conclusion Positive affective style may be important predictor of resilience, positive affect and positive cognitive attention. Key words: Affective style; Resilience; Positive and negative affect; Cognitive attention; Military medical students