AUTHOR=Landon Lauren Blackwell , Miller Jennifer C. W. , Bell Suzanne T. , Roma Peter G. 

TITLE=When people start getting real: The Group Living Skills Survey for extreme work environments

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=15

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1348119

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1348119

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec id="sec1"><title>Introduction</title><p>Group living skills (GLS), that is, being tidy and considerate of others, are an important skillset for teams who live and work together. However, this construct does not have a validated measure to enable an understanding of how group living skills influence team dynamics over time. We developed and validated a short measure of group living skills for teams living in extreme work environments.</p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Methods</title><p>We collected data from 83 individuals in 24 teams living and working in space and spaceflight analog environments on missions of 45–240 days.</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Results</title><p>We provide evidence of reliability and validity for the GLS Survey over time and identify a two-factor structure. We also demonstrate its use as a measure of team-level dynamics and its utility as a sociometric measure to identify a person’s degree of group living skills.</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Discussion</title><p>We outline recommendations for using this new measure in future research and applied settings to understand this unique aspect of teams living and working together.</p></sec>