Personality and mental health of pilots sleep quality prediction.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Personality and mental health of pilots sleep quality prediction [Abstract] Objective To study the personality factors and mental health to predict the flight personnel of sleep quality. Methods Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire and Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Inventory (16PF), for 519 health and rehabilitation services to the hospital for testing and evaluation of pilots. Results The PSQI scale sub-divided into the delimitation of ≥ 9 points, anxiety and mental health as predictors, Logistic analysis of the flight crew can be accurately divided into a normal sleep and sleep disorders into two categories, forecast accuracy rate was 87.4%. Conclusion sleep quality and personality and mental health there is a certain relevance. By personality characteristics and mental health to predict the quality of sleep. [Keywords:] flight personnel; sleep quality; personality; Forecast Abstract: Objective To study on the prediction of pilots’sleep quality according to their personality and mental health. Methods PSQI and 16PF were used to test and evaluate 519 pilots in resting recurrence in our sanatorium.Results Setting the demarcation line as PSQI ≥ 9, and melancholy and mental health as prediction factors, pilots might be exactly divided into sleep normal and sleep disorder by Logistic analysis. The accuracy rate of the prediction was 87.4%. Conclusion Sleep quality were correlated with personality and mental health. We could predict sleep quality with personality and mental health. Keywords:: pilot; sleep quality; personality; prediction Sleep as a measure of clinical health is a basic indicator is closely related with the physical and psychological function. There may be reciprocal causation relationship. Differences in sleep patterns of behavior may show up during the awakening of psychological and behavioral differences. In this study, Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index