Fluid intellingence and spatial reasoning as predictors of pilot training performance in the South African Air Force (SAAF)
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Fluid intellingence and spatial reasoning as predictors of pilot training performance in the South African Air Force (SAAF) | |
| Creator | de Kock, François Schlechter, Anton | |
| Description | Pilot selection is a form of high-stakes selection due to the massive costs of training, high trainee ability requirements and costly repercussions of poor selection decisions. This criterion-related validation study investigated the predictive ability of fluid intelligence and spatial reasoning in predicting three criteria of pilot training performance, using an accumulated sample of South African Air Force pilots (N = 108). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses with training grade achieved as criterion were performed for each of the phases of training, namely practical flight training, ground school training, and officers’ formative training. Multiple correlations of 0.35 (p 0.01), 0.20 (p 0.05) and 0.23 (p 0.05) were obtained for flight, ground school and formative training results, respectively. Spatial ability had incremental validity over fluid intelligence for predicting flight training performance. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2009-04-30 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v35i1.753 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 35, No 1 (2009); 8 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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