Cross-cultural differences in psychosocial adaptation to isolated and confined environments.

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Jeffrey Johnson, James S. Boster, Stanisław Rakusa-Suszczewski, Valeri P Klopov, Xue Quan Fu, Usha Sachdeva

PubMed · 2004 · 37 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Cultural background is associated with mood and social support as well as changes in these measures during the austral winter. Cultural differences in patterns of psychosocial adaptation must be considered in the formation and training of multinational crews for long duration missions in space.