AircrewHealth.comClick here for the Aviation Ground Crew Stress Study questionnaire.
Be assured, the purpose of this study is NOT to find out if you have a stressful job! We already know that your work has many stressful aspects, including public contact, noise, tight time constraints, shift work, and so on. In addition, you sometimes encounter dramatic events at work that really test your coping abilities.
This study aims to find out how you cope, and what effects the job stress has on your personal life and health.
Stress researchers often study a large group of individuals in a single occupational group because they are all subjected to similar kinds of stressors at work. At the same time, however, it's best to study a group whose members are diverse in backgrounds and personal characteristics in order to learn which kinds of people are most and least affected by which kinds of stressors. You and your co-workers fill the bill on both counts.
Similar studies have been done with other occupational groups, such as police, nurses, EMTs, firefighters, and teachers, but so far no one else has studied a large number of aviation personnel in this manner.
We hope you'll agree that the topic is important and that you will participate in this landmark research. In return, we will do our best to get you and your co-workers the recognition we think you deserve.
Study participants fill in a survey questionnaire that is on-line. On average, it takes about 30 minutes to fill in the questionnaire.
Participation is anonymous. We do not ask for your name, or the name of the company you work for.
All nationalities are welcome to participate. The survey questionnaires are in English.
The Aviation Ground Crew Stress Study was launched in mid-2004 and has been running continuously since that time.
Participation is open to anyone who works in the aviation industry on the ground. This category includes, dispatchers, crew schedulers, customer service agents, A&P mechanics and other maintenance personnel, air traffic controllers, ramp agents, aircraft fuelers, airport staff, FBO personnel, aviation security personnel, -- in short, anyone who works in aviation in any capacity, other than as a pilot, flight attendant, or other flight crewmember.
Click here for the Aviation Ground Crew Stress Study questionnaire.
If you would like to know more about the content of the Stress Study survey and about how the questionnaire items were developed, please visit Measures Used in the Stress Study Surveys.
For further information about our surveys, please visit About Our Research Projects. There you will learn about what we do with the information we collect in our surveys. A note about our research privacy policy also can be found on that page.
To view survey results already posted, please visit the Reports section of our website.
