Psychological health in military pilots' families

Abstract

Introduction: One of the greatest sources of stress in modern life is labor stress. Family as the basic and fundamental unit of society is not immune of negative effects of labor stress. Pilots have a lot of labor stress. So, this study compares the psychological health level of military pilots' and normal people families. Method: This is a descriptive study. Sample society was 30 military pilots' families (30 wives, 47 daughters, 39 sons total of 116) and 30 wives of normal people. The study performed with SCL-9-R and demographic questionnaire. Achieved data analyzed by T-test. Results: Comparing psychological health level of wives showed that differences in physical complaints, obsession-compulsion , sensitivity in relations, depression, agitation, aggressiveness, phobia and psychotics between two groups are statistically meaningful (p