Golden G Y
Soc Stud Sci. 1994 Aug;24(3):463-511. doi: 10.1177/030631279402400302.
Emotions are a seldom-studied facet of the creative process in science and engineering. This paper describes a study of emotions in scientists and engineers on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, from 1987-90. Although the spacecraft was finally launched in 1989, and is now en route to Jupiter, the Callenger Shuttle accident severely threatened the Project's survival in 1986, placing many people under serious stress, and triggering depression in some. The paper describes the nature of the depressions (an overwhelming sense of futility), how people coped with the associated problems and emotions (social support was a critical variable), and how the depressions resolved. The findings have implications for future interrupted missions: managers can ease, and possibly help end, such depressions by empathizing with the experience of futility, by helping people to make significant shifts in task or position within a project, and by recognizing interim aachievement.
在科学与工程领域的创造性过程中，情感是一个鲜少被研究的方面。本文描述了一项针对参与前往木星的伽利略任务的科学家和工程师的情感研究，研究地点是位于加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的喷气推进实验室，时间跨度为1987年至1990年。尽管该航天器最终于1989年发射升空，目前正在前往木星的途中，但1986年挑战者号航天飞机事故严重威胁到了该项目的存续，使许多人承受了巨大压力，还导致一些人陷入抑郁。本文描述了抑郁的本质（一种压倒性的徒劳感）、人们如何应对相关问题和情绪（社会支持是一个关键变量）以及抑郁是如何得到缓解的。这些研究结果对未来可能中断的任务具有启示意义：管理者可以通过感同身受徒劳感、帮助人们在项目中进行任务或职位的重大调整以及认可阶段性成就来缓解甚至可能帮助终结此类抑郁。
