Personality based clusters as predictors of aviator attitudes and performanceThe feasibility of identification of personality-based population clusters was investigated along with the relationships of these subpopulations to relevant attitude and performance measures. The results of instrumental and expressive personality tests, using the Personal Characteristics Inventory (PCI) test battery and the Cockpit Management Attitudes Questionnaire, suggest that theoretically meaningful subpopulations exist among aviators, and that these groupings are useful in understanding of personality factors acting as moderator variables in the determination of aviator attitudes and performance. Out of the three clusters most easily described in terms of their relative elevations on the PCI subscales ('the right stuff', the 'wrong stuff', and the 'no stuff'), the members of the right stuff cluster tended to have more desirable patterns of responses along relevant attitudinal dimensions.
Document ID
19900039218
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Gregorich, Steve (Texas Univ. Austin, TX, United States)
Helmreich, Robert L. (Texas Univ. Austin, TX, United States)
Wilhelm, John A. (Texas, University Austin, United States)
Chidester, Thomas (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1989
Subject Category
Behavioral Sciences
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Symposium on Aviation Psychology