Predictive Modeling of Operative Performance by Means of Personality Traits - Implications for Selection of Personnel

摘要

What are the implications of the structural models for leader and team adaptabilty. Emotional Stability and Adaptability are fundamental aspects in selection of personnel working under stressful conditions with high stakes and risks. With high emotional stability your cognitive performance (information handling and decision making) can stand high stress levels longer without deterioration. With high ability to adapt you are better at handling complex and ambiguous information and situations. We have in other modeling studies (Svensson, Angelborg-Thanderz, & Sjoeberg, 1993) found that emotional coping processes will increase and interfere with problem solving coping processes when the challenge (the combination of risk- and complexity aspects) of a task increases. Sooner or later emotional coping dominates with deteriorated decision making as a consequence. Emotional stability counteracts and delays emotional coping. There are similarities between the effects of emotional stability and the effects of training - both delay emotional coping and support problem solving coping processes. It is not for nothing that emotional stability and intense training since long form corner stones for effective military operations.