The relationship between temperamental traits and the level of performance of an eye-hand co-ordination task in jet pilots.
When assessing the psychological suitability for the profession of a pilot, it is important to consider personality traits and psychomotor abilities. Our study aimed at estimating the role of temperamental traits as components of pilots' personality in eye-hand co-ordination. The assumption was that differences in the escalation of the level of temperamental traits, as measured with the Formal Characteristic of Behaviour-Temperament Inventory (FCB-TI), will significantly influence eye-hand co-ordination. At the level of general scores, enhanced briskness proved to be the most important trait for eye-hand co-ordination. An analysis of partial scores additionally underlined the importance of sensory sensitivity, endurance and activity. The application of eye-hand co-ordination tasks, which involve energetic and temporal dimensions of performance, helped to disclose the role of biologically-based personality traits in psychomotor performance. The implication of these findings for selecting pilots is discussed.
Biernacki
Marcin
M
Military Institute of Aviation Medicine, Warszawa, Poland. mbiernacki@wiml.waw.pl
Tarnowski
Adam
A
D001359:Aviation; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D011044:Poland; D011592:Psychology, Military; D011597:Psychomotor Performance