Predicting of pilot's job success based on thirty subscales of NEO-PI-R questionnaire

Resent researches have shown that contextual domain of job performance criteria could be affected by personnel's personality. This study aimed to determine, how personality traits can effect on performance of military pilots.
In this descriptive cross-sectional research, 40 military pilots were selected in a cluster sampling method and also they fulfilled NEO-PI-R (240 questions form). Each pilot evaluated by two assessor pilots for flight performance scores. Stepwise regression was used to predict flight standardization scores based on predictive variables. All statistical analyzes is done through SPSS software version 19.
The results of this study indicated that four subscales of personality traits thus imagination (O1), actions (O4), trust (A1) and competence (C1) were significant valid predictors (P The results show that personality traits can predict the job performance in military pilots.The findings have numerous implications for research and practice in aviation psychology field, especially in the subfields of personnel employment and performance appraisal.