Adaptive Versus Maladaptive Coping Strategies and Adaptive Training: Differential Effects on Naval Radio Frequency Detection Task Performance and Operator Cardiac Dynamics
摘要
Adaptive training (AT) systems improve learning efficiency through techniques such as adaptive difficulty, although these changes in difficulty can induce stress in learners. Coping strategies can be useful to help mitigate stress, but they introduce a complex landscape to study in the given context. The effects of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies have been studied extensively in terms of academic performance, employee health, etc. However, the two types have never been studied together in an AT protocol to determine their effects on performance and psychophysiological functioning in the military domain. In this study, we manipulated adaptive versus maladaptive coping strategies in an AT protocol for a naval radio frequency detection task. Between these coping strategies, we observed improvements in physiological functioning (heart rate), but not performance (accuracy and timeliness).