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## PROBLEM Air traffic controllers have in the past few years come into great public prominence. Although there are only some 10,000 of these workers in centers and towers, it is now apparent to most people that even a slight inefficiency in the air traffic control system can lead to a dramatic disruption of American life. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been conducting extensive research into all types of factors affecting controller performance. Among this wide-ranging program have been a few attempts t o relate personality variables to job performance. Trites, Kurek and Cobb ( 6 ) studied the effects of over-and under-achieving during the training program on job performance, as well as their relation to the scales of the California Personality Inventory (a), and reported several significant relationships. Karson(5), using peer and supervisory ratings of job performance, related these to the personality factors measured by the 16 PF test(2) by means of correlational and factor analytic methods. I n general, it was found that peer and supervisory ratings of air traffic controllers (ATCs) were highly related to each other (P = +.55), but little relationship was found

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Author

Samuel Karson; Jerry W. O'Dell

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0021-9762)

Published

1971

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)