PMID- 26099127
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150813
LR  - 20150623
IS  - 2375-6314 (Print)
IS  - 2375-6314 (Linking)
VI  - 86
IP  - 6
DP  - 2015 Jun
TI  - Team Composition Issues for Future Space Exploration: A Review and Directions for 
      Future Research.
PG  - 548-56
LID - 10.3357/AMHP.4195.2015 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Future space exploration, such as a mission to Mars, will require 
      space crews to live and work in extreme environments unlike those of previous 
      space missions. Extreme conditions such as prolonged confinement, isolation, and 
      expected communication time delays will require that crews have a higher level of 
      interpersonal compatibility and be able to work autonomously, adapting to 
      unforeseen challenges in order to ensure mission success. Team composition, or 
      the configuration of member attributes, is an important consideration for 
      maximizing crewmember well-being and team performance. METHODS: We conducted an 
      extensive search to find articles about team composition in long-distance space 
      exploration (LDSE)-analogue environments, including a search of databases, 
      specific relevant journals, and by contacting authors who publish in the area. 
      RESULTS: We review the team composition research conducted in analogue 
      environments in terms of two paths through which team composition is likely to be 
      related to LDSE mission success, namely by 1) affecting social integration, and 
      2) the team processes and emergent states related to team task completion. 
      DISCUSSION: Suggestions for future research are summarized as: 1) the need to 
      identify ways to foster unit-level social integration within diverse crews; 2) 
      the missed opportunity to use team composition variables as a way to improve team 
      processes, emergent states, and task completion; and 3) the importance of 
      disentangling the effect of specific team composition variables to determine the 
      traits (e.g., personality, values) that are associated with particular risks 
      (e.g., subgrouping) to performance.
FAU - Bell, Suzanne T
AU  - Bell ST
AD  - Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.
FAU - Brown, Shanique G
AU  - Brown SG
FAU - Abben, Daniel R
AU  - Abben DR
FAU - Outland, Neal B
AU  - Outland NB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Aerosp Med Hum Perform
JT  - Aerospace medicine and human performance
JID - 101654770
SB  - IM
MH  - *Aerospace Medicine
MH  - *Astronauts
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Personality
MH  - Risk
MH  - Social Isolation
MH  - Space Flight/*organization & administration
EDAT- 2015/06/23 06:00
MHDA- 2015/08/14 06:00
CRDT- 2015/06/23 06:00
PHST- 2015/06/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/06/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/08/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.3357/AMHP.4195.2015 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2015 Jun;86(6):548-56. doi: 10.3357/AMHP.4195.2015.