Physiological compliance and team performance
Abstract
Physiological compliance (PC) refers to the correlation between physiological measures of team members over time. The goals of this study were to examine ways of measuring PC in heart rate variability (HRV) data and the relationship between PC and team performance. Teams were tasked with entering both real and simulated rooms and "shooting" individuals with a weapon and identifying individuals without a weapon. The linear correlation and directional agreement PC methods were shown to be the most sensitive to differences in performance, with greater PC being associated with better performance. The correlation method when applied to a measure of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) revealed a significant difference between high and low performers (t[8]=-2.31, p=0.03) and the directional agreement applied to inter-beat-intervals and RSA revealed trend-level differences (t[4.62]=-1.86, p=0.06 and t[8]=-1.68, p=0.07). These results suggest that PC may have merit for predicting team performance.
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In 10 four-person teams performing a military training task, better team performance was associated with higher physiological synchrony in respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
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- Authors
- Elkins, A. N., Muth, E. R., Hoover, A. W., Walker, A. D., Carpenter, T. L., & Switzer, F. S.
- Affiliations
- Clemson University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Muth, Eric R.
- Venue
- Applied Ergonomics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 997-1003
- ISSN
- 0003-6870 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2053432932
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 1.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Ergonomics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Keywords
- team performance, heart rate variability, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RR interval, team dynamics, performance prediction
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Adolescent, Adult, Arrhythmia, Sinus, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Oxygen Consumption, Respiratory System, Statistics as Topic, Time Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Young Adult
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