Ke Li*, Lei Shi, Xiaotong Lou, Yuzhong Duan, Feng Du, Xin Guan, Yuan Wang, Wenmin Shi, Jiakuan Li
Background: As a special kind of profession, the work-related stress of military personnel always is a concern of experts and scholars from all walks of life, but the work-related stress of soldiers under special environment is always ignored.
Aim: This study investigated the relationships between work-related stress, burnout, sleep quality, anxiety, depression, and attention in the special military environment.
Methods: A total of 1085 soldiers from three different brigades in the plateau, desert areas, high radiation areas, respectively, were investigated with Occupational Stress Scale (OSS), Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-rating depression scale (SDS), and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS).
Results: The results showed that work-related stress was positively correlated with burnout, sleep quality, anxiety and depression, while negatively correlated with mindful attention. Burnout, sleep quality, anxiety, depression and mindful attention could significantly predict work-related stress levels (63.6% of the total variance). Burnout partially mediated the association of sleep quality, depression and mindful attention.
Conclusion: In conclusion, it can reduce soldiers' work stress level through burnout, anxiety, depression, sleep quality and mindful attention, proving that burnout has a controlling effect on depression, sleep quality and mindful attention to work-related stress.