Psychological evaluation of seafarers.

Int Marit Health

Medical University of Gdansk, Inter-Faculty Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Powstania Styczniowego 9 B, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland.

Published: April 2004

The CIA Factor Assessment is a psychological testing and related research activities carried out under auspices of Wartsila Land and Sea Academy at WLSA Regional Training Centre in the Philippines in June 2003. The purpose was to evaluate seafarers against their mental and physical health and obtain their charachteristic as individuals and as a group. The CIA (Consciousness, Intuition. Anticipation, professional psychometric testing) is a set of tests covering three essential values to determine one's suitability and fitness for work at sea developed in order to recognize and improve potentials of professional seafarers. The results of the evaluation were good. The examined persons had good or very good scores, only few of them were below average, requiring professional individual psychological attention/assistance, extended specialized training, or intensive pertinent testing.

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