Individual style of communication with the outer world during long-term isolation
Iusupova, A.K.; Gushchin, V.I.; Popova, I.I.
Aviakosmicheskaia i Ekologicheskaia Meditsina 38(2): 19-24
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0233-528X PMID: 15233032 Document Number: 577428
Crew communication with ground controllers is a source of information for diagnostics of mood, mental performance and mutual understanding within space crew. The article analyzes results of dynamic observation of communication of small groups isolated from the outer world during project SFINCSS-99 performed at RF SSC-IBMP in 1999-2000 with the purpose to simulate life and interrelations within ISS crews. The project evidenced that some communication manners featured personal strategies of adaptation to the extreme conditions. A modified procedure of communication content-analysis proved to be a success in remote psychodiagnostics and to bear promise for analysis of crew personality and inter-relationship during space flight.