Psychological Components in the Development and Prevention of Air Sickness,

Abstract

Extensive behavior analysis is made on the basis of 23 case studies of motion sick aircrew members. Situational context variables and their interaction with individual dispositions, behavior regulation patterns, coping mechanisms and self control techniques are discussed. It seems that sensitivity to motion is not the only criterion in the development of motion sickness. Description of countermeasures and their effects are presented. Daily exercise of various techniques of behavior regulation to build up successive adaptation to motion stress will enable persons to cope with motion sickness producing situations inflight.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADP004653

Entities

People

  • R. W. Kemmler

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Countermeasures
  • Inflight
  • Motion Sickness
  • Physiological Phenomena
  • Regulations
  • Sensitivity
  • Stress (Physiology)
  • Virginia

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

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