# Presentation: 027329

## TRANSPORT CANADA PERSONALITY PROFILE [TCPP2c]

- NEAL S. LATMAN, PhD, NSL ASSOCIATES & WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
- Presented at the
- FOURTH TRIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL
- AIRCRAFT FIRE & CABIN SAFETY
- RESEARCH CONFERENCE
- by
- Angelo Boccanfuso, Transport Canada

## TRANSPORT CANADA PERSONALITY PROFILE 

- AUTHORS:
- Neal S. Latman, PhD
- Amy Adams, BSc
- Elizabeth Fairbanks, BSc
- Marla Ehly, BSc
- Kimberly Artho, BSc
- Linda Trigo, BSc
- Miranda Meza, BSc
- INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- NSL Associates, Amarillo, Texas, USA
- West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas, USA

## FACTORS INFLUENCING AIRCRAFT EVACUATION

- AIRCRAFT:
- Design & Configuration
- Construction Materials, etc.
- ENVIRONMENT: [Internal & external]
- Lighting & Litter
- Smoke & Fire
- Weather, etc.
- HUMAN FACTORS: [Passengers & Crew]
- Personality Characteristics
- Physical Characteristics
- Culture, Motivation, Perceptions, etc.

## INSTRUMENT REQUIREMENTSPERSONALITY PROFILING 

- 1) Determine personality traits that appear, a priori, relevant to emergency evacuations of aircraft.
- 2) Completed in 5 minutes or less.
- 3) Could be adjusted for and validated for various   cultures and languages commonly encountered in airline passengers & crew.
- 4) Easy to modify as knowledge is gained about the psychological factors that impact aircraft evacuation behavior.

## TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c 

- EGO STRENGTH
- ASSERTIVENESS
- IMPULSIVENESS
- CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
- BOLDNESS
- APPREHENSIVENESS
- RESTRAINED
- TENSE
- EXTRAVERSION
- ANXIETY
- DECISIVENESS

## TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c 

- RELIABILITY
- The degree to which an instrument measures variables in a consistent, reliable, stable, or repeatable manner.
- Questionnaire Stability
- determined at 10 and 30 days.
- Personality Stability
- determined at 60 and 90 days.

## TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c RELIABILITY

- QUESTIONNAIRE STABILITY:
- 10 to 30 days
- Coefficient of Stability
- 0.91 to 0.71
- PERSONALITY TRAIT STABILITY:
- 60 to 90 days
- Coefficient of Stability
- 0.62 to 0.61

## TRANSPORT CANADAPERSONALITY PROFILE, 2c  VALIDITY

- VALIDITY:
- The degree to which an instrument measures what it was intended to measure.
- Measured by concurrent criterion validity.
- Reference criterion:
- Cattell’s 16 PF (4th Edition)

## TCPP2c VALIDITYSAMPLE DEMOGRAPHICS

- Sample Size: 639
- Sex: Male – 33%, Female – 67%
- Age: Mean = 26, Range = 18 – 83
- Experience Flying: 88 %
- Evacuation Experience: 6 %
- Personality Traits: Representative of general USA population.

## TCPP2c VALIDITYCONCURRENT CRITERION

_**Personality Traits**_**	****	****            **_**“r”**_
- Ego Strength....................	0.52
- Assertiveness...................	0.53
- Impulsiveness..................	0.50
- Conscientiousness.............	0.45
- Boldness........................	0.66
- Apprehensiveness..............	0.54
- Restrained.......................	0.47
- Tension..........................	0.45
- Extraverted.....................	0.56
- Anxiety..........................	0.61
- Decisiveness....................	0.53

## TCPP2cSUMMARY

- RELIABILITY
- 		Comparable to reference standards such as 	Cattell’s 16 PF, JPI-R, CPI, etc.

- VALIDITY
-     	Comparable to reference standards such as           	Cattell’s 16 PF, JPI-R, CPI, etc.

## TCPP2cRECOMMENDED SCALE

- LOW
-  Less than 4.0
- TYPICAL / “STATISTICALLY NORMAL”
- Between 4.0 and 7.0
- HIGH
- Greater than 7.0
- Classify an individual’s personality traits
- 	as “low”, “typical”, or “high”,
-     as defined above for research purposes

## FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- 	CONTACT:
- 		Claude Lewis
- 		Transport Canada
- 		Tower C, Place de Ville
- 		330 Sparks Street
- 		Ottawa, Ont., Canada
- 		tel: (613) 990-5906
- 		e-mail: lewisc@tc.gc.ca