Comparison of personality characteristics on the trainees with different performance in aeromedical physiological training

2010 
Objective To investigate the personality characteristics of trainees in aeromedical physiological training and probe into the psychological factors influencing on training performance so as to provide help for instructing future aeromedical physiological training.Methods Sixteen personality factor questionnaire(16PF), Eysenck personality questionnaire-revised, short scale for Chinese, (EPQ-RSC) and coping behaviors questionnaire were adopted for psychological test on 35 volunteers who participated in centrifuge and hypobaric chamber trainings.Subjects were both divided into above 7 G and below 6 G groups based on the G-tolerance of centrifuge training and into finished and unfinished groups based on the result of 16 km decompression training in hypobaric chamber.Results Twelve volunteers completed centrifuge training above 7 G and other 23 were not.The 16PF tested factors such as reaoning, openness to change,self-reliance and tension, and EPQ tested extraversion dimensionality, the appeal, rationalization and retreat of coping behaviors questionnaire showed significant difference between two G-tolerance groups (P<0.05 or P<0.01).In decompression training, 24 volunteers out of 35 accomplished the exposure above 16 km.Significances were observed between groups on emotional stability, dominance, vigilance and privateness,adaptability and anxiety of sub-factors and personality factors of psychological healthy person that tested by 16PF, and on extraversion dimensionality and retreat of coping behaviors that tested by EPQ in hypobaric chamber training (P<0.05 or P<0.01).Conclusions The differences of trainees' personality characteristic would influence the effect of aeromedical physiological training.Implementing the principle of combining physiological with psychological training will enable the training more scientific and effective. Key words: Individuality ;  Cattell personality factor questionnaire ;  Questionnaires ;  Adaptation,psychological ;  Acceleration ;
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