Coping with pilot stress: resting at home compared with resting away from home.
This study assessed the impact of "resting at home" vs. "resting away from home" among 272 British commercial airline pilots. The purpose of the investigation was two-fold; to see whether resting at home and resting away from home are equivalent in the quality of rest they provide pilots (in view of the increasing trend in the industry for encouraging pilots to "rest while away from home base"); and second, to highlight the factors that may be predictive of poor mental health and mood shifts while resting away or at home. On balance, pilots away from home managed to rest, but not really to relax (from a psychological perspective). Explanations of this are discussed, based on bi-variate and multi-variate statistical analyses.
Department of Management Sciences, University of Manchester, England.
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D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012146:Rest; D013315:Stress, Psychological