Floating Iceberg Model of Psychological Competence Towards Airline Transport Pilots’ Professionalism Lifecycle Management System

Abstract

AbstractBased on the concept of Pilots’ Professionalism Lifecycle Management System put forward by Civil Aviation Administration of China, this paper aims to develop a Floating Iceberg Model of Pilots’ Psychological Competence, which shows that professional adaptability of psychological competence consist of professional competence and social competence and formed on the basis of personality traits and cognitive abilities, meanwhile, mental health status fluctuates with the changes of professional adaptability and surrounding environment in a certain range above and below the water. There are flow channels among the modules in the iceberg, so it is necessary to explore the key flow factors within cognitive abilities and personality traits that contributes to pilots’ professional adaptability, as well as the ways of their influence on professional competence and social competence, and to clarify that whether gates can be set to control and guide the flow of key flow factors. This paper lists the dimensions and indicators, assessment methods and stages, the key psychological indicators closely related to core competency, work style competency, and abilities of coping with “black swan” and “grey rhino” during the whole pilots’ professionalism lifecycle. It provides some suggestions for the future research direction and the challenge of pilots’ psychological competence construction and psychological competency assessment.KeywordsPsychological competence modelPsychological competency assessmentProfessionalism lifecycle management systemProfessional adaptability of psychological competence