Investigation on the psychological pressure of 457 civil servants in Wuhan City

Objective To gain insight into the mental status of civil servants and its influencing factors. Methods The symptom check list-90 (SCL-90) and Chinese city residents' subjective well-being scale edited by Xing Zhanjun were used to analyze the serving civil servants' psychological pressure. Results 272 (59.52%) subjects had at least one symptom above 2.0 among nine factors including depression, anxiety, somatization, opposition, sensitive interpersonal relationship, terror, paranoid, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and psychotic. In the evaluation of four dimensions score including work overload, growth opportunity, achievement motivation, expectation, significant difference was also found between male and female civil servants in psychological pressure (all P<0.05). Meanwhile, significant differences were also found in age, gender and education level (all P<0.05). Conclusions The government and social public should pay attention to the value orientation, mental health and work feeling of civil servants, and strengthen the mental health education on the youth and lower level worker. Furthermore, it is necessary to adjust the performance appraisal and selection mechanism properly.