The construction of driver' s personality trait model of armed police force

VernacularTitle:武警部队汽车驾驶员人格特质模型的构建
Author: Wen ZHANG ; Shujun YU ; Dan WANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Drivers; Personality traits; Factorial analysis; Model construction
From: Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2010;19(8):741-742
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the personality characteristics of the drivers in the Armed Police Force ( CAPF), as well as construct a personality traits model for drivers and evaluation criteria. Methods Adopting Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire(16PF) to collect data from 1187 CAPF drivers in Beijing,Sichuan,Inner Mongolia and Yunnan. Results The paper concludes that career personality traits of CAPF drivers are made up of 4 factors: stability and self-control, self-motivation and cooperation, fantasy and openness, intelligence and candor, which explain 50.13% of the total variance. Conclusion The four factors basically construct the personality trait model of CAPF drivers. They could also be of great significance in recruiting, training and evaluating drivers.