Long-Duration Space Exploration and Emotional Health: Recommendations for Conceptualizing and Evaluating Risk.

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dc.contributor.authorAlfano, Candice A.en
dc.contributor.authorBower, Joanne L.en
dc.contributor.authorCowie, J.en
dc.contributor.authorLau, S.en
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, R. J.en
dc.date.acceptance2017-11-08en
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-22T09:09:05Z
dc.date.available2018-10-22T09:09:05Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-10
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractSpaceflight to Mars will by far exceed the duration of any previous mission. Although behavioral health risks are routinely highlighted among the most serious threats to crew safety, understanding of specific emotional responses most likely to occur and interfere with mission success has lagged in comparison to other risk domains. Even within the domain of behavioral health, emotional constructs remain to be ‘unpacked’ to the same extent as other factors such as attention and fatigue. The current paper provides a review of previous studies that have examined emotional responses in isolated, confined, extreme environments (ICE) toward informing a needed research agenda. We include research conducted during space flight, long-duration space simulation analogs, and polar environments and utilize a widely-accepted and studied model of emotion and emotion regulation by Gross [6] to conceptualize specific findings. Lastly, we propose four specific directions for future research: (1) use of a guiding theoretical framework for evaluating emotion responses in ICE environments; (2) leveraging multi-method approaches to improve the reliability of subjective reports of emotional health; (3) a priori selection of precise emotional constructs to guide measure selection; and (4) focusing on positive in addition to negative emotion in order to provide a more complete understanding of individual risk and resilience.en
dc.exception.ref2021codes252cen
dc.funderNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)en
dc.identifier.citationAlfano, C.A., Bower, J., Cowie, J., Lau, S. and Simpson, R.J., (2017) Long-duration space exploration and emotional health: Recommendations for conceptualizing and evaluating risk. Acta Astronautica, 142, pp. 289-299en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.11.009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/16773
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidNNX15AC13Gen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.researchinstituteInstitute for Psychological Scienceen
dc.subjectSpaceflighten
dc.subjectExtreme environmentsen
dc.subjectEmotion Regulationen
dc.subjectCopingen
dc.subjectBehavioral healthen
dc.titleLong-Duration Space Exploration and Emotional Health: Recommendations for Conceptualizing and Evaluating Risk.en
dc.typeArticleen

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