@article{ref1,
title="Personality profiles of divers: integrating results across studies",
journal="International maritime health",
year="2018",
author="van Wijk, Charles H.",
volume="69",
number="4",
pages="297-303",
abstract="BACKGROUND: There are numerous reports on diver personality, spanning across five decades, across national boundaries, and using a range of measures to describe diver profiles. However, the range of reports poses challenges to interpreting new studies, particularly when having to compare findings across generations, measurements, and national/cultural contexts. This paper aimed to review and integrate diver personality descriptions, drawing on the available studies that reported trait theory based data for naval and sport divers. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: Available studies on diver personality - associated with trait theory - were tabulated and the specific traits associated with divers described. Their findings were then integrated into a synthesised description of personality traits. <br><br>RESULTS: The results suggest remarkably stable military diver profiles across generations, measures, and navies, with some unique differences observed due to national-cultural variables. It was of particular interest that different measures of personality appeared to present related constructions of diver profiles. Navy divers share, among others, a propensity for adventurousness, a strong sense of self-agency, and low trait anxiety. Unsurprisingly, personality profiling could not be generalised across military-civilian diving contexts, and the same clear profile differentiation of navy divers was not visible among sport divers. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Contemporary local data - in the context of military diving - could productively be compared to the body of existing reports, at least where similar theoretical models are used.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1641-9251",
doi="10.5603/IMH.2018.0046",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/IMH.2018.0046"
}