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Predicting Vigilance Performance, Stress, and Coping with Individual Difference Measures

SHAW, TYLER HARRISON
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212003114

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2008, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Psychology.
One goal for the current investigation was to determine the extent to which vigilance performance can be predicted using individual difference measures involving personality and intelligence. The vigilance task, adapted from Temple et al. (2000), consisted of pairs of capital letters that included any combination of an O, D, and a backwards D. In the low task complexity condition, critical signals for detection were pairs of Os. In the high task complexity condition, critical signals for detection were any pairs of identical letters (i.e. two Ds, two backwards Ds, or two Os). Personality was measured using broad personality traits, namely the NEO-FFI, as well as a factor-analytically derived personality battery that yielded a four factor solution: Cognitive Disorganization, Heightened Experience, Sleep Quality, and Impulsivity. Intelligence was measured by two tests extracted from the Educational Testing Service Kit of Factor-Referenced Cognitive Tests (Ekstrom et al., 1976): the Letter Sets Test, a measure of fluid intelligence, and the Advanced Vocabulary Test, a measure of crystallized intelligence. A second goal for this investigation was to determine the extent to which the characteristic stress response often associated with vigilance tasks as measured by the Dundee Stress State Questionnaire (DSSQ), i.e. an increase in distress and loss of task engagement, could be predicted by the NEO-FFI, the personality battery, and the intelligence measures. A final goal was to determine the extent to which choice of coping strategy measured by the Coping Inventory for Task Situations (CITS; Matthews and Campbell, 1998) could be predicted by the NEO-FFI, the personality battery, and the intelligence measures. Fluid intelligence and extraversion emerged as predictors for vigilance performance. While the derived personality battery did not directly predict performance, the Cognitive Disorganization factor, characterized by absentmindedness and daydreaming, predicted the stress associated with vigilance tasks. Fluid intelligence predicted both positive (task-focused) and negative (avoidance) coping strategies during a vigilance task. In sum, a test battery consisting of measures of fluid intelligence, extraversion, and cognitive disorganization has the potential of being of effective value in selecting operators for vigilance assignments.
Joel Warm, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Gerald Matthews, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Ken Ghee, PhD (Committee Member)
121 p.
Psychology
Vigilance; sustained attention; selection; personality

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  • SHAW, T. H. (2008). Predicting Vigilance Performance, Stress, and Coping with Individual Difference Measures [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212003114

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • SHAW, TYLER. Predicting Vigilance Performance, Stress, and Coping with Individual Difference Measures. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212003114.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • SHAW, TYLER. "Predicting Vigilance Performance, Stress, and Coping with Individual Difference Measures." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212003114

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