Machines in psychology? Spaceships in psychology!

0447427 - PSÚ 2016 eng A - Abstrakt
Poláčková Šolcová, Iva - Šolcová, Iva - Stuchlíková, I. - Mazehóová, Y.
Machines in psychology? Spaceships in psychology!
-. 2014.
[PhD existence IV: česko-slovenská psychologická konference (nejen) pro doktorandy a o doktorandech. 19.05.2014 – 20.05.2014, Olomouc]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GP14-02889P
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: spaceflight * isolation * confinement * qualitative research
Kód oboru RIV: AN - Psychologie

The success of long-duration space mission depends on various technical demands as well as on the psychological (cognitive, affective, motivational) adaptation of crewmembers and quality of interactions within the crew. The authors of the present paper examined the ways crewmembers of a 520-day simulated spaceflight to Mars (held in the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow) coped with such an extreme situation. The project Mars- 500 was historically the first long-term simulation of a manned flight to Mars: project started in 2010 and six male volunteers aged between 27–38 years (M = 32.16; SD = 4.99) spent in isolation chamber seventeen months. Our research focused on resiliency, emotion regulation, motivation and personal growth. In our presentation we would like to present outputs from qualitative part of our research. During follow-up measurement we used narrative qualitative interview in order to understand the unique experience of the crewmembers living and working in isolation and confinement for seventeen months. During our “Flight story interview“(adaptation of McAdams´s Life Story Interview) participants of the project reconstructed a story about their life in simulation. The crewmembers were encouraged to reveal important points and processes from their own experience of isolation and to recall the “peak experience” and “nadir experience”, “turning points” or “important scenes” and other narrative moments that create a story. The results show what was important during isolation and what we can learn from the situation of confinement and isolation from the crew.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0249764