The Psychological Selection of Officer Candidates in Austria

Abstract

Austria's psychological officers' selection is an integral part of the selection procedure for officers' training, which lasts for more than a year. During this psychological selection, which takes 22 hours, due to the use of selected stressors and a sleepless night not only intelligence and personality traits can be tested but also (by applying the concept of "Ergo-Psychometry") individual stress resistance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010350

Entities

People

  • E. Frise

Organizations

  • Ministry of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Foreign Languages
  • Infantry
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Leadership
  • Military Psychology
  • Military Training
  • Personality
  • Physical Fitness
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Qualifications
  • Ratings
  • Resistance
  • Sleep Deprivation
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Circadian Sleep-Wake Regulation and Chronobiology
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.