Development of an aviation safety locus of control scale

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1184-1188

  Hunter, David R ^a  

^a FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Aviation safety; LOC; Locus of control; Pilots; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FLIGHT; HAZARD; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0036897181     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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