Basic Research Area of Interest: Identifying, Assessing, and Assignment Quality Personnel; Project Title: Variability in Repeated Adaptive Performance (VARI): Examining Personality Predictors
Abstract
Adaptive performance, the extent to which individuals successfully modify their behavior when facing novel or changing task environments (Jundt, Shoss, & Huang, 2015), is crucial in contexts where people are required to change plans, solve problems, and remove obstacles that impede task or mission accomplishment (National Research Council, 2015). Unfortunately, the extant research on adaptive performance suffers from inconsistent findings, a restricted scope of predictors, and inconsistency in conceptual and operationalization definitions of adaptive performance outcomes (Jundt et al., 2015; National Research Council, 2015), thus making formal recommendations challenging. To address these issues, the proposed project involves examining within- and between-person patterns of variability in repeated adaptive performance. Our study will utilize a low-fidelity simulated adaptive performance task to test hypotheses related to patterns of variability in repeated adaptive performance. This research allows us to (a) extend the criterion space of adaptive performance, particularly with regard to variability in adaptive performance across changes, (b) identify novel predictors, including personality traits pertinent to emotion- and self-regulation, and (c) develop new statistical paradigms for studying repeated AP. Insights from this research can benefit the ArmyÕs efforts to effectively and efficiently select and classify soldiers that can adapt quickly to dynamic missions and operational environments and function effectively in information rich and semi-autonomous environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1910453
Entities
People
- Mindy Shoss
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Central Florida