Objective      To investigate the relationship of stress and emotional experience with attention bias in the new recruits during the training period.       Methods      Attention to positive and negative information scale (APNIS)

positive and negative affect scale (PANANS) and military psychological stress Self Rating Questionnaire (PSET ) were applied to survey 1 600 new recruits in the training period.       Results      ①The mean stress level was 50.01±10.00 for the new recruits. There were 818 subjects (51.12%) with non-stress levels (50)

584 (36.5 %) with mild stress (50~60)

134 (8.38%) with moderate stress (61~69)

and 64 (4.00%) with severe stress (≥70).    ②Negative attention bias was positively correlated with stress level and negative emotion scores in the subjects (correlation coefficient=0.30～0.34

P0.05)

and positive attention bias was negatively correlated with stress level and positive emotion scores in the subjects (correlation coefficient=-0.33

-0.32

P0.05).   ③The characteristics of attentional bias were significantly different in the recruits with different stress levels (P0.05)

with those with higher stress level having lower positive cognitive bias and higher negative cognitive bias.    ④Significantly differences were seen in stress level and positive cognitive bias among the recruits with different educational levels (P0.01). The subjects with higher educational levels had lower stress levels and were more inclined to positive cognitive bias.   ⑤The negative cognitive bias

positive cognitive bias

positive emotion and negative emotion could predict the stress level

with an explained variance of 37.4%.       Conclusion       The stress level and emotional experience are closely associated to their characteristics of attentional bias among the new recruits during training. The stress level is generally lower in the subjects having positive cognitive bias than those negative

and the former subjects also have more positive emotions.