Development of Predictors of Performance under Stress in Jumpmaster Training

摘要

Questionnaires asking about background and jump experience, sports participation, and reaction to stress were given to 128 men from four consecutive classes of students from the Jumpmaster Training Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, during 1979 and 1980. Using multiple regression, measures from those questionnaires were employed to develop predictors of performance under stress during training. This research identified variables from each questionnaire which are potentially useful predictors of points scored during stressful training jumps in the course. These included age of student, number of previous parachute jumps, amount of stress experienced during training jumps, and the individual's history of prior sports participation. This research was exploratory in nature and the results should be considered to be tentative. Due to the unavoidably low subject-to-variable ratio in this research, some shrinkage in the predictive power of these variables can be expected beyond that already adjusted for statistically in the analyses.