Abstract
In this study, 697 air force soldiers from China were investigated with the Chinese Resilience Scale, Military Emotional Regulation Scale, Simple Coping Scale, and Social Support Rating Scale. Structural equation modeling revealed the following: (1) resilience had a positive predictive effect on active coping style; (2) the emotion regulation strategy of self-comfort mediated the relationship between resilience and positive coping style; and (3) social support moderated the latter half of the intermediary process, in which resilience influenced the active coping style of soldiers through self-comfort. The influence of resilience on air force soldiers was a mediating effect, in which resilience could not only directly predict the coping style of soldiers but also influence their coping style through self-comfort. Social support enhanced the influence of self-comfort on coping style. The study has great theoretical and empirical value for promoting the mental health of soldiers and using positive coping strategies.
Highlights
Given that air force soldiers comprise a high-tech combat team in the transition period of arms in this new era, it is important to compare the willpower, emotional stability, and psychological endurance of air force soldiers using an assessment of military quality
The main purposes of this study are as follows: (i) under the special environment of the army, we probe the relationship between the mental resilience of soldiers and positive coping styles; (ii) we test whether the self-comfort of emotional regulation mediates the relationship between psychological resilience and coping style; and (iii) we examine whether social support has a moderating effect on the mediator
Chinese Version of the Mental Resilience Scale The Chinese version of the CD-RISC mental resilience scale was revised by Yu et al, 2007), which used to measure the level of individual mental resilience
Summary
Given that air force soldiers comprise a high-tech combat team in the transition period of arms in this new era, it is important to compare the willpower, emotional stability, and psychological endurance of air force soldiers using an assessment of military quality. It is the key to ensuring efficient cooperation among all links in air defense operations. Due to their remote geographical location, strange and closed environment, monotonous life, military training intensity, critical mission requirements, and other special military environmental factors, air force soldiers can develop psychological stress responses that cause anxiety, depression, and other uncomfortable emotions, and take a negative response. Coping is the selection and execution of behaviors evaluating the intrinsic or extrinsic requirements. It produces behavioral efforts of an individual to control problems. To improve soldiers’ mental health, attention should be paid to the cultivation of soldiers’ active coping styles and the avoidance of negative coping patterns as much as possible (Johnson et al, 2008)
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