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Overwintering in the Antarctica as an analog for long term manned spaceflight
1Department of Equilibrium Adaptation Research, Nagoya University, Japan.
Advances in Space Research : the Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
As a part of Polar Psychological Project planned by SCAR group on Antarctic-Space-Related-Human-Factors-Research, a series of psychological tests were conducted on the Japanese wintering-over personnel. The main purpose of the research was to study the behavioral characteristics, such as depression, insomnia, anxiety, and hostility, which might develop during the course of wintering-over period, and it involves a detailed study of the individuals and interpersonal relationship.