Teams in Extreme Environments: Exploring Autonomy, Motivation, and Stress (TE~3AMS) - Study Motivation and Initial Stress and Coping Results

摘要

The overall aim of the TE~3AMS project is to understand how individual variability in coping strategies, universal values, and perception of control influences team level constructs such as work autonomy, team perspective, and team resilience at an analogue site, Eureka Weather Station, Canada. We hope to understand if and how the crews create an extreme and unusual environment (EUE) culture; a home away from home. Importantly, we are replicating measures developed for ISS at the analogue site which will allow us to examine their reliability and compare and contrast findings across a variety of environments. This will allow for another important comparison between space and analogue environments and their effects on mission members. In addition to describing the importance of the study and its design we will discuss initial stress and coping results from the majority of the sample as assessed prior to mission start. Preliminary analyses suggest that using humour, actively seeking a solution, and asking for instrumental support may be important coping strategies in this group. Furthermore, perceived stress in one's life prior to the mission seems to vary as a result of previous experience at the weather station.