Abstract

CABRERA DANIEL, Pedro G.; DIAZ CUADRIELLO, Caridad  and  ALARCON BRETO, Clara D.. Evaluation system for the working psychic capacity of divers and frogmen. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 1996, vol.25, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3046.

The purpose is to create an evaluation system for the working psychic capacity, directly conditioned by the exigencies of divers'and frogmen's tasks, with the object of establishing their aptitude to accomplish their missions, and as an indicator of the prognostic and perspective level of the said specialists. A battery of psychological and psychophysiological tests was suited, oriented to the assessment of the mobility of the psychic processes, the operative thought, the psychomotor activity process, the time of reaction, the profoundness vision, and the commutation, volume, and distribution of the attention. These tests were validated and standardized for the studied population. The data were processed by central measure staticians, and by a test of matrix correlation with a p = 0,05. The results revealed significant differences in age, time of reaction, operative thought, psychomotor activity, and in the distribution, commutation and volumen of the attention; due to these factors, independent qualification standards were established for divers and frogmen.

Keywords : PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; DIVING; NAVAL MEDICINE.