Landman Annemarie, Nieuwenhuys Arne, Oudejans Raôul R D
a MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, Department of Human Movement Sciences , VU University , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
b Behavioural Science Institute , Radboud University , Nijmegen , The Netherlands.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2016 Sep;29(5):570-9. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2015.1070834. Epub 2015 Aug 12.
We aimed to test whether police officers' trait self-control strength decreases negative effects of high pressure (HP) on state anxiety, shooting behavior, and shooting performance.
Forty-two officers performed a shooting test under both high and low-pressure (LP) conditions. Self-control strength was assessed with the decision-related action orientation (AOD) scale of the Action Control Scale (ACS-90). Effects of AOD on perceived anxiety, heart rate, shooting time, and shot accuracy were estimated and controlled for those of other individual difference measures (i.e. age, police working experience, trait anxiety, and threat-related action orientation).
After controlling for baseline values in the LP condition as well as the other individual difference measures, AOD significantly predicted shot accuracy in the HP condition.
Results suggest that trait self-control strength in the form of AOD helps officers cope with anxiety and maintain perceptual-motor performance under HP.
我们旨在测试警察的特质自我控制能力是否能降低高压（HP）对状态焦虑、射击行为和射击表现的负面影响。
42名警察在高压和低压（LP）条件下进行了射击测试。自我控制能力通过行动控制量表（ACS - 90）中与决策相关的行动取向（AOD）量表进行评估。估计了AOD对感知焦虑、心率、射击时间和射击准确性的影响，并对其他个体差异测量指标（即年龄、警察工作经验、特质焦虑和威胁相关行动取向）的影响进行了控制。
在控制了LP条件下的基线值以及其他个体差异测量指标后，AOD显著预测了HP条件下的射击准确性。
结果表明，以AOD形式存在的特质自我控制能力有助于警察在高压下应对焦虑并维持感知运动表现。
