Assessement of mission orientation in pilots and its correlation with personality

Current Research Project

Title / Titel: Assessement of mission orientation in pilots and its correlation with personality

Summary / Zusammenfassung: Accomplishing a flight mission is a complex task and contingent on a variety of facilitating conditions but also obstacles. Several factors play a role, including habitual decision making strategies, risk appraisals, and the personality of the pilots. In this project a set of developed assessment tools will be evaluated for reliability, stability and validity. Instruments will be identified that can be used for convergent and divergent validity. A set of computerized tasks will be administerd to several samples together with some personality scales and other measures as validation criterion. The results will help optimizing decision strategies.

Keywords / Suchbegriffe: pilots, personality assessment, risk assessment

Project Leadership and Contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte

Prof. Dr Willibald Ruch (Project Leader)	w.ruch@psychologie.uzh.ch
MSc Tracey Platt	t.platt@psychologie.uzh.ch

Funding Source(s) / Unterstützt durch: Other Public Sources (e.g. Federal or Cantonal Agencies)

In Collaboration with / In Zusammenarbeit mit

Dr. med. Samuel W. Huber
Eidgenössisches Departement für Verteidigung,
Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport VBS
Luftwaffe
Fliegerärztliches Institut FAI /
AMC Schweiz

Switzerland

Duration of Project / Projektdauer: Jul 2009 to Oct 2010