TABLE II 



MEAN SCORES ON THE MOOD ADJECTIVE CHECK LIST 

 (SELF-ADMINISTERED DAILY IN THE HABITAT) 



^"■■The lower the score, the less common was the feeling in day-to-day 

 1 i f e in the habi tat. 



This finding is supported further by the interview tapes. Aquanauts explicitly 

 and spontaneously stated in a number of these interviews that they themselves 

 were surprised at how little anxiety they felt during their mission. Some said 

 they felt actually safer in the underwater environment than in the environment 

 where they conducted their normal daily business at home. However, there was 

 considerable variation in reported moods. It seem appropriate to examine the 

 relationship of mood-to-habitat rating and behavioral measures collected by 

 Dr. Robert Halmreich and his University of Texas associates. Specific correla- 

 tions were developed only for the scientist aquanauts because there was a 

 relatively small N for engineers. 



Of particular interest were the correlates of pleasantness, depression, and 

 anxiety in daily life in the habitat. There was a tendency for those who felt 

 more pleasant emotions while living in the habitat to rate the habitat more 

 favorably on the MARS (_r = .43). Also, they tended to do relatively more 

 total worl< (r = .35) and have less total leisure (_r = ,33). 



On the other hand, those with a tendency to feel depressed while living in the 

 habitat spent more time in solitary recreation (j^ = .38) and in idling 

 (jr = .32); rated Independently as less stable and less enthusiastic by 

 our interviewers (r = .39 and .39) during interviews, these people report 

 sleeping less well in the habitat (_r = .37), tended to state there was not 

 enough privacy in the habitat (_r = .35), were generally less positive about 

 the habitat (_r = .35), had more complaints (_r = .34), and had a more negative 

 attitude toward topside (r = .31). Similarly, those who felt more anxious 

 while in the habitat were scored by interview raters as less stable (r = .49) 

 and less enthusiastic (r = .41), and in the Interview showed less positivity 

 toward the habitat (_r = .47), less positive attitudes toward topside (_r = -45), 

 and had more complaints (_r = .32). For an independent scale on which aquanauts 

 rated the amount of visual, auditory, and tactile variety in the habitat, those 



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