Psychological Measures As Predictors of Pilot Performance: A Meta-Analysis
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The International Journal of Aviation Psychology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 1-20
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327108ijap0601_1
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to review the validity evidence for psychological measures used in pilot selection and to detect possible moderators for the relationship between predictors and pilot performance. A total of 66 independent samples from 50 studies were located and included in the meta-analysis. The best predictors of pilot performance were previous training experience (.30) and combined indexes, a combination of several cognitive and/or psychomotor tests (.37). The next best predictors were tests measuring cognitive (.24) and psychomotor/information-processing abilities (.24), as well as aviation information (.24) and biographical inventories (.23). The personality, intelligence, and academic tests yielded lowest mean validities (.14, .16, and .15, respectively). The analysis indicated that moderators might be operating for all test categories except academics, and the effect of several moderators were examined.Keywords
This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
- THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSISPersonnel Psychology, 1991
- Initial Validation of a Computer-Based Secondary Selection System for Student Naval AviatorsMilitary Psychology, 1990
- A new objectively scored version of the Defence Mechanism TestScandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1989
- Publication Bias: A Problem in Interpreting Medical DataJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 1988
- The Eysenck Personality Inventory as a selection test for military pilotsJournal of Occupational Psychology, 1982
- A Selective Attention Test as a Predictor of Success in Flight TrainingHuman Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1982
- The Aircraft Landing Test: An Information Processing Approach to Pilot SelectionHuman Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1981
- Prediction of advanced level aviation performance criteria from early training and selection variables.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1973
- Validation of naval aviation cadet selection tests against training criteria.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1947
- Psychological Research in Aviation in Italy, France, England, and the American Expeditionary Forces.Journal of Comparative Psychology, 1921