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. 2024 Nov 4:15:1444276.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1444276. eCollection 2024.

Personality matters in extremely demanding environments: A bed rest performance study

Panja Goerke  1 , Claudia Marggraf-Micheel  1 , Dirk Stelling  1 , Henning Soll  1
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Personality matters in extremely demanding environments: A bed rest performance study

Panja Goerke et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Introduction: Personality is a rather neglected aspect in bed rest studies. The aim of the study was to clarify which specific personality pattern may predict the performance of bed rest study participants.

Materials and methods: Personality traits were correlated with participants' performance rated by the team running the study. The sample consisted of N = 68 participants who took part in one of four different studies. A broad set of personality traits correlated with different performance aspects (stability, perseverance, modesty, flexibility, compliance, likability, social adaptation).

Results: Emotional instability showed the highest correlations. Furthermore, participants with low aggressiveness, low empathy and low achievement motivation were rated as more suitable for a study. Additionally, participants with a high extraversion showed a higher social adaptation.

Discussion: The results contribute to the knowledge of the impact of personality in extremely demanding environments and provide first evidence for the identification of an ideal personality profile predicting performance of bed rest study participants.

Keywords: bed rest; emotional instability; extremely demanding environments; performance criteria; personality profile.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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