[Study on relationship between emotional stability in flight and nerve system excitability].
OBJECTIVE
To study the related factors of emotional stability in flight.


METHODS
Based on the operable definition of emotional stability in flight and the related literature review, 63 experienced pilots and flight coaches were investigated and the other-rating questionnaire of emotional stability in flight was established. To test the senior nerve system, Uchida Kraeplin (UK) test was administrated on 153 19-21 years old male student pilots of the second grade in the department of flight technique in China Civil Aviation College, who were selected through 13 h flight, 35 h solo flight, and acted as the standardization group. In the end, the correlation was explored between the testing results and their emotional behavioral characteristics in flight.


RESULTS
Significant positive correlation was found between emotional feature indexes of emotional stability in flight and excitability in UK test.


CONCLUSIONS
The excitability in UK test are good predictors for emotional stability in flight.
Liu
Fang
F
Institute of Space Medico-Engineering, Beijing, China.
Huang
Wei-fen
WF
Jing
Xiao-lu
XL
Zhang
Ping
P
D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001359:Aviation; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires