title: Dispositional optimism and self-assessed situation awareness in a Norwegian military training exercise.
abstract: The current study examined the relationship between dispositional optimism and situation awareness. A sample of 77 Royal Norwegian Naval Academy and 57 Royal Norwegian Army Academy cadets were administered the Life Orientation Test prior to participating in a field-training exercise involving a series of challenging missions. Following an infantry mission component of the exercise, situation awareness was measured using the Mission Awareness Rating Scale (MARS), a self-assessment tool. The analysis indicated that dispositional optimism correlated negatively with situation awareness under these conditions. The role of intrapersonal variables in mediating situation awareness and decision-making in stressful situations is discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Jarle
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eid
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: Nils Tore
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Meland
authors.forename: Bjørn Helge
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Johnsen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001364:Awareness; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D005508:Food Deprivation; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D009664:Norway; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012892:Sleep Deprivation; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis