Study on Characteristics of Personality Traits in Chinese Pilots Based on Meta-analysis

Li Jingqiang; Wang Bei; Zhao Ning

doi:10.16289/j.cnki.1002-0837.2017.03.002

Abstract：Objective To analyze the characteristics of personality traits of Chinese pilots and provide a theoretical basis for person-post matching.Methods Fifteen reported data of Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) from 2008 to 2014 and 13 reported data of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) from 2005 to 2015 were collected and the data was processed with the Meta-analysis method.Results High extraversion,low apprehension,low psychoticism,high reasoning,high dominance,high self-reliance,high privateness,low tension,high liveliness,low neuroticism,high perfectionism,high rule-consciousness,high abstractedness and high openness were the overall characteristics of personality traits of the Chinese pilots with respect to the Chinese military norm,low emotional stability,low dominance,low liveliness,low social boldness,high sensitivity,high vigilance,low perfectionism and high tension were the prime different personality traits between civil pilots and military pilots,and low reasoning,low emotional stability,low dominance,high apprehension,and high tension were the prime personality traits between pilots and student pilots.Conclusion It will be helpful to select pilots suitable for their career features based on these typical personality traits of pilots and the differentiated characteristics.