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How Does National Culture Help Pilots in Navigating in Different Environment?

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The study surveyed 919 Chinese student pilots with 20 national culture questions. The researcher uses 5 questions to measure one national culture variables including Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, and Uncertainty Avoidance. The study performance a principle factor analysis (PCA) to the questionnaires and found that environment setting was essential to abstracted factors from national culture survey. The Kaiser-Meyer-Oklin measure of sampling adequacy (KMO) of this study was 0.85. A Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity (Bartlett’s test) was χ2(n = 919) = 4975.077 and P value 0.001. The study founding echoed with Harari and Perkins who suggested that a culture system is different within different environments [1]. The result of PCA showed the survey could extract 4 latent factors, and the cumulative variance of the PCA indicated that the survey questions only explained 50% of the variances. The abstracted factors were reflecting large group environment, cockpit environment, general society expectation, and self-esteem.

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Wu, X.O. (2020). How Does National Culture Help Pilots in Navigating in Different Environment?. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors of Transportation. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_67

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