Amadee-20-PSYCHSCALE
Details
| Acronym | PSYCHSCALE |
| Description | Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to improve participants’ psychological flexibility, stress and well-being, performance and error measures |
| Principal Investigator (PI) | Tricia L. Larose E-mail: t.l.l.larose@flymed.uio.no |
| Organisation | Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths University of London |
| Ana Diaz-Artiles, | Ana Diaz-Artiles, Texas A&M University, Department of Aerospace Engineering E-mail: adartiles@tamu.edu Gabriel G. De la Torre, University of Cadiz, College of Education, Department of Psychology E-mail: gabriel.delatorre@uca.es |
Summary
Mars analog astronauts (AAs) undergo a rigorous selection and training process to
ensure crew cohesion and mission success. However, even the healthiest,
strongest individuals may face psychological challenges due to various
environmental stressors including isolation, confinement, close living quarters,
monotony of food, delayed communication with MSC, time pressure, scientific or
engineering failures, sleep difficulties, fatigue, etc. In our effort to further human
space exploration in a safe and effective way, we must thoroughly understand and
protect the psychological well-being of the analog astronauts, before, during, and
after the space analog mission.
This project aims to study analog astronauts anxiety and depression levels before,
during and after space analog mission in order to better understand psychological
well-being in response to known and unknown environmental stressors. This project
further aims to study the correlation between AAs crew anxiety and depression
levels and the possibility of a “third quarter phenomena” (TQP) whereby the first
quarter of the mission may be characterized by excitement or anxiety, the second
quarter by boredom and depression, and the third quarter by increased emotional
outbursts.
This project has the potential to inform prevention strategies including resilience
training for the mental health and overall well-being of analog astronauts at the
individual and group level.
Experiment Data
| Date | Files |
|---|---|
| 2021-10-04 | insert desrcr. |