Psychological health in military pilot's families

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 pilot's and normal people families. This is a descriptive study. Sample society was 30 military pilot's 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. 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<0.01 or p<0.05). Comparing psychological health level of military pilot's wives and progenies also showed meaningful differences (p<0.01 or p<0.05) in physical complaints, obsession-compulsion, depression, agitation, phobia and psychotics. Existence of meaningful differences in psychological health level of pilot's and normal people's wives showed the effect of labor stress in pilot's families. By this result, all responsible people should notice more about negative effects of labor stresses in pilot's families.