Search for Positive Response Level Indicators (PRLI's) under Stress

摘要

Effective economic and human resources planning requires quantitative knowledge of human response levels under stress. In this project, the Essential Workers'Supportiveness Index was designed and tested as an instrument for measuring the positive response levels of a population's willingness to support overall national emergency. The theoretical basis of the research was national emergency. The theoretical basis of the research was Gittinger's Personality Assessment System (PAS), augmented by Saunders' PAS-derived Fourth Dimension. The EWSI made use of these concepts, and it is suitable for mass testing. It was administered to a sample of 1530 subjects from two geographic areas and included 23 categories of essential workers. Four primary types of stress-related behaviors were identified: Phlegmatic and Egocentric, which were unsupportive. 80.6 percent were unsupportive. Training modalities were devised to improve supportiveness (positive response levels) in all four types of behaviors. Recommendations for further testing were made. Report contains a Spectrum of Emergencies, a Bibliography on Economic Stabilization, and a Bibliography on the Personality Assessment System.