The Prediction of Anxiety in Aviation Students

摘要

A description of the anxiety experienced by 59 student aviators is presented. Five factors which influence this anxiety were established. These factors are: (1) the students tendency to get anxious; (2) time before or between hops; (3) how good the student's last hop was; (4) personal factors such as amount of sleep; (5) the patience of the student's instructor. An attempt was made to measure some of these factors. It was found that two of the factors, tendency to anxiety and instructor patience, are measurable. When the tests which measured these factors were combined, a multiple correlation of .90 was obtained between the tests and an anxiety criterion. The fact that instructor patience is the variable which could best be manipulated was pointed out. A way is suggested to minimize student anxiety and increase quality of flying. This suggestion involves matching students who have a tendency toward anxiety with instructors who are patient. (Author)