Key Factors and Threats to Team Dynamics in Long-Duration Extreme Environments

Roma, Peter G.; Bedwell, Wendy L.

doi:10.1108/s1534-085620160000018007

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“…Spaceflight analogs also reported increased neurobehavioral disorders (e.g., increased memory lapses and errors, anger, and depression) during total sleep deprivation (Dennis, Ecker, & Goel, 2017). There were individual differences between participants, which may have implications for teamwork; however, a link between sleep and teamwork has not yet been well-established through research (Roma & Bedwell, 2017).…”

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Teamwork and collaboration in long-duration space missions: Going to extremes.

Landon

Slack

Barrett

2018

American Psychologist

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The scientific study of teamwork in the context of spaceflight has uncovered a considerable amount of knowledge over the past 20 years. Although much is known about the underlying factors and processes of teamwork, much is left to be discovered for teams who will be operating in extreme isolation and confinement during a future Mars mission. Special considerations must be made to enhance teamwork and team well-being for multi-year missions during which the small team will live and work together. We discuss the unique challenges of effective teamwork in a Mars mission scenario, and the difficulties of studying teamwork using analogs of the space environment. We then describe the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's current practices and research on teamwork, which includes team selection and composition, teamwork training, countermeasures to mitigate risks to effective team performance, and the measurement and monitoring of team functioning. We end with a discussion of the teamwork research areas that are most critical for a successful journey to Mars. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Section: Measurement and Monitoring Teamworkmentioning

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Teamwork and collaboration in long-duration space missions: Going to extremes.

Landon

Slack

Barrett

2018

American Psychologist

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“…Finally, the social processes domain is clearly related to social dynamics and team performance, with its key constructs of affiliation/attachment and communication. Within an IMOI system, receptivity and capacity for affiliation and effective communication are core skills and abilities for individual team members in the mixed work/social setting of long-duration missions in ICE environments (Landon et al, 2017, 2018; Roma and Bedwell, 2017) and serve as essential individual- and team-level inputs to virtually all mediating team processes, emergent states, and behaviors. Biologically, perhaps the best-known mechanism involved in social processes is the hormone oxytocin.…”

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“…Teams that work, live, and serve in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments face many threats to behavioral health, social dynamics, and team performance over time (Landon et al, 2018). In the prototypical long-duration ICE environment—space exploration—as well as military deployments, remote work outposts, and other high-risk operational settings, teams must adapt to multiple interacting risks from the surrounding external environment, the constructed operational environment, the social environment, and individual-level vulnerabilities (Goswami et al, 2012; Roma and Bedwell, 2017).…”

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The Behavioral Biology of Teams: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Social Dynamics in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

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Teams in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments face many risks to behavioral health, social dynamics, and team performance. Complex long-duration ICE operational settings such as spaceflight and military deployments are largely closed systems with tightly coupled components, often operating as autonomous microsocieties within isolated ecosystems. As such, all components of the system are presumed to interact and can positively or negatively influence team dynamics through direct or indirect pathways. However, modern team science frameworks rarely consider inputs to the team system from outside the social and behavioral sciences and rarely incorporate biological factors despite the brain and associated neurobiological systems as the nexus of input from the environment and necessary substrate for emergent team dynamics and performance. Here, we provide a high-level overview of several key neurobiological systems relevant to social dynamics. We then describe several key components of ICE systems that can interact with and on neurobiological systems as individual-level inputs influencing social dynamics over the team life cycle—specifically food and nutrition, exercise and physical activity, sleep/wake/work rhythms, and habitat design and layout. Finally, we identify opportunities and strategic considerations for multidisciplinary research and development. Our overarching goal is to encourage multidisciplinary expansion of team science through (1) prospective horizontal integration of variables outside the current bounds of team science as significant inputs to closed ICE team systems and (2) bidirectional vertical integration of biology as the necessary inputs and mediators of individual and team behavioral health and performance. Prospective efforts to account for the behavioral biology of teams in ICE settings through an integrated organizational neuroscience approach will enable the field of team science to better understand and support teams who work, live, serve, and explore in extreme environments.

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“…Isolation is the physical separation from others or civilization, the reduction of psychologically and socially meaningful stimuli (Leach, 2016), and living or working in a remote location that is an impractical distance to travel on a daily basis (Roma & Bedwell, 2017). In Alaska, some of the salmon fisheries are more remote than others, and as a result physical, social, and psychological isolation are frequently encountered.…”

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“…Confinement is characterized by limited physical mobility and is often accompanied by limited exercise and muscle atrophy in the lower extremities, which has been shown to lead to irritation, depression, and decreased morale (Suedfeld & Steel, 2000). Factors of the individual psychological component of confinement include limited sensory stimulation as well as a lack of personal and physical space (Roma & Bedwell, 2017;Smith, Sandal, Leon, & Kjaergaard, 2017), experienced after prolonged periods of time on a small vessel with the same few individuals. For instance, crew sleep in the small confines of the fo'c'sle (bow of the boat where the crew quarters are located) and some bunks are so short that the feet of crew members touch.…”

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Stressors, Coping Mechanisms, and Uplifts of Commercial Fishing in Alaska: A Qualitative Approach to Factors Affecting Human Performance in Extreme Environments

Pickett¹,

Hofmans²

2019

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

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We depict the physical and psychological challenges of commercial fishing in Alaska as well as the uplifts, or positive experiences fishermen report. We describe an array of coping methods that are utilized during the fishing season and the contexts in which they occur. Our findings help clarify the link between human behavior, stressors, coping mechanisms employed, and uplifts experienced when working in extreme conditions. By doing this, we provide a better understanding of the effects that severe conditions have on wellbeing, such as working for long periods of time in cramped quarters in remote, extreme environments, and how Alaskan fishermen cope with them.

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Key Factors and Threats to Team Dynamics in Long-Duration Extreme Environments

Cited by 12 publications

References 105 publications

Teamwork and collaboration in long-duration space missions: Going to extremes.

Teamwork and collaboration in long-duration space missions: Going to extremes.

The Behavioral Biology of Teams: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Social Dynamics in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

Stressors, Coping Mechanisms, and Uplifts of Commercial Fishing in Alaska: A Qualitative Approach to Factors Affecting Human Performance in Extreme Environments

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