title: Problems of psychological monitoring in astronaut training.
abstract: Monitoring of the goal-oriented psychological changes of a man during professional training is necessary. The level development of the astronaut psychic features is checked by means of psychological testing with the final aim to evaluate each professionally important psychological qualities and to evaluate in general. The list of psychological features needed for evaluation is determined and empirically selected weight factors based on wide statistical sampling is introduced. Accumulation of psychological test results can predict an astronaut's ability of solving complicated problems in a flight mission. It can help to correct the training process and reveal weakness.
authors.affiliation: Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, Star City, Moscow, USSR.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Morgun
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D018480:Astronauts / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013026:Space Flight / Q000193:education*