TRANSPORT CANADA PERSONALITY PROFILE [TCPP2c]

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TRANSPORT CANADA PERSONALITY PROFILE TCPP2c

• NEAL S. LATMAN, PhD, NSL ASSOCIATES WEST TEXAS
  AM UNIVERSITY
• Presented at the
• FOURTH TRIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL
• AIRCRAFT FIRE CABIN SAFETY
• RESEARCH CONFERENCE
• by
• Angelo Boccanfuso, Transport Canada

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TRANSPORT CANADA PERSONALITY PROFILE

• AUTHORS
• Neal S. Latman, PhD
• Amy Adams, BSc
• Elizabeth Fairbanks, BSc
• Marla Ehly, BSc
• Kimberly Artho, BSc
• Linda Trigo, BSc
• Miranda Meza, BSc
• INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• NSL Associates, Amarillo, Texas, USA
• West Texas AM University, Canyon, Texas, USA

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FACTORS INFLUENCING AIRCRAFT EVACUATION

• AIRCRAFT
• Design Configuration
• Construction Materials, etc.
• ENVIRONMENT Internal external
• Lighting Litter
• Smoke Fire
• Weather, etc.
• HUMAN FACTORS Passengers Crew
• Personality Characteristics
• Physical Characteristics
• Culture, Motivation, Perceptions, etc.

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INSTRUMENT REQUIREMENTSPERSONALITY PROFILING

• 1) Determine personality traits that appear, a
  priori, relevant to emergency evacuations of
  aircraft.
• 2) Completed in 5 minutes or less.
• 3) Could be adjusted for and validated for
  various cultures and languages commonly
  encountered in airline passengers crew.
• 4) Easy to modify as knowledge is gained about
  the psychological factors that impact aircraft
  evacuation behavior.

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TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c

• EGO STRENGTH
• ASSERTIVENESS
• IMPULSIVENESS
• CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
• BOLDNESS
• APPREHENSIVENESS
• RESTRAINED
• TENSE
• EXTRAVERSION
• ANXIETY
• DECISIVENESS

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TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c

• RELIABILITY
• The degree to which an instrument measures
  variables in a consistent, reliable, stable, or
  repeatable manner.
• Questionnaire Stability
• determined at 10 and 30 days.
• Personality Stability
• determined at 60 and 90 days.

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TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c
RELIABILITY

• QUESTIONNAIRE STABILITY
• 10 to 30 days
• Coefficient of Stability
• 0.91 to 0.71
• PERSONALITY TRAIT STABILITY
• 60 to 90 days
• Coefficient of Stability
• 0.62 to 0.61

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TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c
VALIDITY

• VALIDITY
• The degree to which an instrument measures what
  it was intended to measure.
• Measured by concurrent criterion validity.
• Reference criterion
• Cattells 16 PF (4th Edition)

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TCPP2c VALIDITYSAMPLE DEMOGRAPHICS

• Sample Size 639
• Sex Male 33, Female 67
• Age Mean 26, Range 18 83
• Experience Flying 88
• Evacuation Experience 6
• Personality Traits Representative of general USA
  population.

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TCPP2c VALIDITYCONCURRENT CRITERION

• Personality Traits r
• Ego Strength.. 0.52
• Assertiveness. 0.53
• Impulsiveness 0.50
• Conscientiousness. 0.45
• Boldness 0.66
• Apprehensiveness.. 0.54
• Restrained.. 0.47
• Tension.. 0.45
• Extraverted 0.56
• Anxiety.. 0.61
• Decisiveness.. 0.53

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TCPP2cSUMMARY

• RELIABILITY
• Comparable to reference standards such as
  Cattells 16 PF, JPI-R, CPI, etc.

VALIDITY Comparable to reference standards
such as Cattells 16 PF, JPI-R, CPI,
etc.
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TCPP2cRECOMMENDED SCALE

• LOW
• Less than 4.0
• TYPICAL / STATISTICALLY NORMAL
• Between 4.0 and 7.0
• HIGH
• Greater than 7.0
• Classify an individuals personality traits
• as low, typical, or high,
• as defined above for research purposes

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• CONTACT
• Claude Lewis
• Transport Canada
• Tower C, Place de Ville
• 330 Sparks Street
• Ottawa, Ont., Canada
• tel [phone]
• e-mail lewisc_at_tc.gc.ca

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