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The Stress Coping Skills Of Undergraduate Collegiate Aviators, Jennifer Kirschner, John P. Young, Richard Fanjoy, Donald Petrin
The Stress Coping Skills Of Undergraduate Collegiate Aviators, Jennifer Kirschner, John P. Young, Richard Fanjoy, Donald Petrin
Aviation Technology Graduate Student Publications
An important human factors research interest area is error reduction. Although pilots placed in highly stressful situations have an increased chance of making errors, they use coping skills to lower their stress level and reduce the likelihood of errors. Typically, coping skills are conceptually separated into three types: active coping skills change the situation to make it inherently less stressful, emotion-focused coping skills use discussion or thinking about the situation in a different way to diminish the negative emotional reaction associated with the stressful situation, and avoidant coping skills allow one to mentally and/or physically disengage through the use of …