58th IMTA: Psychological Assessment: Shaping the Future Soldier
07-11 Nov 2016, New Delhi, India
Monday November 07th
0830-1230
IMLAW (Open for all)
Grand Ballroom 2 and 3
1230-1330
Lunch
1330-1500
Board Meeting (Members Only)
Grand Ballroom 1
1500-1530
Tea (Pre Function Area)
1530-1730
Steering Committee (Members Only)
Grand Ballroom 2and 3
1900-2100
Meet And Greet
Grand Ballroom
Note: Registration will be open on 07th Nov from 1600-2000hrs and on 08th Nov from 0830 hrs onwards
Tuesday November 08th
0900 - 0915
0920 - 1100
Announcements (Dr Gurpreet Kaur)
Opening/Inauguration
0920-0925: Welcome: Dr Gurpreet Kaur
0925-0935: 58th Conference Chair: Dr Soumi Awasthy
0935-0950: Formal Welcome: Dr K Ramachandran, Director DIPR
0950-1010: IMTA Chair: Ms Susan Truscott, DGMPRA
1010-1025: Chairman DRDO: Dr S Cristopher, Secretary Department of Defence R&D
1025-1045: Chief Guest: Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Raksha Rajya Mantri (Minister of State for Defence)
1045-1100: Vote of Thanks: NP Singh
1100 – 1130
Coffee (Pre Function Area)
1130-1145
IMTA Group Photograph
1145 – 1245
Keynote 1: The Making of a Soldier: Perspectives from Deep Future
Dr Manas K Mandal
(Grand Ballroom)
(Conducted by Dr Nidhi Maheshwari)
1245 – 1330
Lunch (Pre Function Area)
Nov 08th
1330-1600
Theme
Room: Grand Ballroom 2
Session-1
Room: Grand Ballroom 3
Session-2
Symposium 1: Multi-Method
Approach in Personnel
Selection for the Armed Forces
(ID32)
Symposium 2: International
Perspectives on Assessing and
Countering Destructive
Leadership (ID08)
Chair: Dr Manas K Mandal
1330-1355
1355-1420
1420-1445
1445-1510
1510-1535
1535-1600
Room: Grand Ballroom 1
Session-3
Room: Venus
Session-4
Stress
Mental Health
Session Chair: Dr D Ravi
Session Chair: Dr J Pradhan
Time
Chair: Dr Watola
Affect and its Assessment in
Personnel Selection
ID 33 (Paper 1)
What is Negative Leadership and
Why Does it Matter?
ID 09 (Paper 7)
Nishi Misra
Dan Watola
Natalie Fisher
History of the Care for Military
personnel after Deployment in the
Netherlands
ID 38 (Paper 18)
Jolanda Snijders
A Person-Oriented Job Analysis
for Selection of Military Officers
ID 34 (Paper 2)
Destructive Leadership and
Cynicism at the United States Air
Force Academy
ID 10 (Paper 8)
Assessing Self-monitoring and
Confidence-bias for Military Recruitment
and Education
Id 27 (Paper 51)
Manifestation and Management of
Mental Health Challenges at High
Altitude
ID 58 (Paper 19)
Suresh Arumugam
James Dobbs
Ms Belinda Brunner
Archana Singh
Understanding the concept of
integrity in military context
ID 35 (Paper 3)
Personality and Destructive
Leadership: Potential for
Selection/Screening
ID 11 (Paper 9)
The Role of Daily Hassles for Swedish
Veterans after International Missions
ID 71 (Paper 15)
Ajai Tripathi
Wendy Darr
Stefan Annell
Perceived Social Support and Mental
Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal
Study
ID 85 (Paper 20)
Melanie Cooper
Design Methodology for
Reliability and Validity : A Fresh
Look
ID 36 (Paper 4)
Breaking Point: Antecedents to
Change in the Australian Defence
Force
ID 12 (Paper 10)
Gender Differences in Emotional Aspects
of Armed Forces Aspirants
ID 62 (Paper 16)
Hardiness as Existential Courage
ID 76 (Paper 21)
M.P Dinesh Nair
Anne Goyne
Mamta Chaturvedi
Swati Mukherjee
Reliability and Validity of
Psychological Assessment:
Technology Based Approach
ID 37 (Paper 5)
Addressing the Dark Side of
Leadership: The NZDF Approach to
Leader Development
ID 13 (Paper 11)
The Effectiveness of Behavioral
Activation To Reduce Depression
ID 96 (Paper 17)
Management of Phobia Through
Cognitive Drill Technique
ID 78 (Paper 22)
Kuldeep Goyal
Delwyn Neill
Fadilah
Sandhya Verma
Military Personal Selection:
Assessment Centre Approach
ID 88 (Paper 6)
Challenges Implementing an
Officer and Other Ranks Corps in
the Norwegian Army
ID 14 (Paper 12)
Ole Boe
Arunima Gupta
1330-1400
1400-1430
1430-1500
Understanding Work-Life Balance in the
UK Armed Forces
ID 7 (Paper 13)
1500-1530
1530-1600
1600-1630
Tea (Pre Function Area)
Departure
from Hotel
1745
Social Evening (Kingdom of Dreams for IMTA delegates)and dinner
Wednesday November 09th
Announcements (Dr Gurpreet Kaur)
0845-0900
0900-1030
Keynote 2: Indian Armed Forces
Grand Ballroom
0900-0930: Lt Gen Rakesh Sharma, UYSM, AVSM,VSM (Adjutant General, Army HQs)
0930-1000: Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla, AVSM, NM, VSM (Chief of Personnel, Naval HQs)
1000-1030: Air Marshal B Suresh AVSM VM (Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel, Air HQs)
Tea (Pre Function Area)
1030-1100
1100-1300
Theme
Room: Grand Ballroom 2
Session-5
Symposium No 3: Combat
Stress Behaviors (ID 79)
1125- 1150
1150-1215
Combat Stress Behaviors: An
Indian Perspective
ID 80 (Paper 23)
Room: Venus
Session-8
Testing
Personality Testing
Organizational Behavior
Chair: Dr Sandhya Verma
Chair: Dr Nishi Misra
Chair: Dr Pramod Kumar
Big Five Personality Factors of Flying and
Non Flying Branch Officers.
ID 19 (Paper 32)
Nirender Pal Singh
Gurpreet Kaur
Rajni Verma
ComBAT (Combat-Stress
Behaviours Assessment Tool)
ID 81 (Paper 24)
Personality Profiling of Candidates
through Interview Techniques
ID 60 (Paper 33)
Nidhi Maheshwari
The Use of Biodata in the
Portuguese Military Aviation
Context
ID 40 (Paper 29)
Soraia Jamal
Biological dysrhythmia and
mental stress amongst soldiers
ID 82 (Paper 25)
A Validation Study of CRES in the
Romanian Army
ID 67 (Paper 30)
Personality Predictors of Selection of
Women Officers’ in Indian Armed Forces
ID 65 (Paper 34)
How’s Morale? What is Morale?
ID 94 (Paper 38)
Vasile Marineanu
Raj Mohan
Luc Léveillé
The Formulation of a Peer
Evaluation Measure for Operational
Forces
ID 108 (Paper 31)
A New Vision of Psychological Selection
in the Dutch Armed Forces
ID 89&90 (Paper 35)
Changing Social and Moral Values and
its Relevance in Present Selection System
ID 87 (Paper 39)
Sanne Keur
Marjolein Verboom
Monali Bhaumik
Psychological Intervention in
Combat Stress Behaviors: Road
map to Resilience
ID 83 (Paper 26)
Kalpana Srivastava
1240-1310
Room: Grand Ballroom 1
Session-7
Implicit Memory in Uncertain
Conditions: Military Perspective
ID 30 (Paper 28)
1100-1130
1130- 1200
1200-1230
Ravinder Yadav
1215-1240
Room: Grand Ballroom 3
Session-6
Time
Chair: Mr. N P Singh
1100-1125
(Conducted by Dr Harsheeta)
Post-Psychological Assessment:
Factors Affecting Armed Forces
Resilience
ID 02 (Paper 27)
Jacques Gouws
1230-1300
Laaiqah Parker
Re-enlistment in the Swedish Armed
Forces. Individual Motives and Driving
Forces.
ID 22 (Paper 36)
Maria ForsBrandebo
Team Cohesion Buffers against Threat,
but do all Members Benefit?
ID 16 (Paper 37)
Wim Kamphius
Nisha Sharma
Lunch (Pre Function Area)
1300-1400
1400-1630
Room: Grand Ballroom 2
Session-9
Room: Grand Ballroom 3
Session-10
Room: Grand Ballroom 1
Session-11
Room: Venus
Session-12
Room: Mercury
Session-13
Testing
Organizational Behavior /
Leadership
Selection
Culture
Poster session
Session Chair: DrKalpana Rani
Chair: Dr Archana
Chair:Nisha Sharma
Chair: Dr Suresh Kumar
Chair: Dr Ravinder Yadav
Theme
1400-1430
1430-1500
1500-1530
1530-1600
1600-1630
1630-1700
Validation of Leadership SJT:
Social Desirability, Faking, and
Situational Cues
ID 03 (Paper 40)
Employee Satisfaction of Younger
Dutch Defense Personnel
ID 24 (Paper 45)
Predictive Validity of Indian
Air Force Officers Selection
ID 44 (Paper 50)
National Culture and Officer
Candidates in the Norwegian
Armed Forces
ID 107 (Paper 55)
JorgFelfe
Bas Dorge
Janmejay Pradhan
Jan O Heimdal
Pictorial Situational Judgement
Test of Personality: Development
and Validation
ID 43 (Paper 41)
Evaluation of a Safety Climate
Assessment Tool within Military
Units.
ID 77 (Paper 46)
Flying Experience, Aviation
Safety Attitude and Perceived
Stress in IAF Aviators
ID 73 (Paper 14)
Y.K Nagle
Renzo Versteeg
Akansha Gautam
Culture Sensitivity in
Peacekeepers on
Predeployment to UN
Missions
ID 64 (Paper 56)
Shilpi Nanglu Bharati
Detecting of Random Responses
on the R.O.K Military Adaptation
Inventory
ID 31 (Paper 42)
Organizational Dynamics
Research – Highlights of Models,
Frameworks and Projects
ID 103 (Paper 47)
Scientific Approach towards
Allocation of Streams in Flying
Branch
Id 68 (Paper 52)
Cross-Cultural PreDeployment Training and
Cultural Intelligence
ID 53 (Paper 57)
Pyunggi JI
Tzvetanka Dobreva-Martinova
Dolly Bansal
Dewi Setiawati
Estimation of Missing Item
Response Using Machine
Learning
ID 56 (Paper 43)
The Dark Triad - The "Dark"
Characteristics of Leadership
Personalities
ID 23 (Paper 48)
Assessment of Pilots’ Mental
Work Load
ID 48 (Paper 53)
Identifying radicalization
tendencies within a military
selection context
ID 47 (Paper 58)
Praveen Chopra
Hubert Annen
Pushpendra Singh
Renaud Aubecq
A Latent Class Analysis of
Psychologically Vulnerable
Groups
ID 29 (Paper 44)
The Impact of Laissez-faire
Leadership in the Norwegian
Armed Forces
ID 26 (Paper 49)
New Dutch Pilot Selection;
from Simulator to Personality
and Cognitive Testing
ID 105 (Paper 54)
Chan-Bin Park
RinoBandlitz Johansen
Maurits Baatenburg de Jong
Tea (Pre Function Area)
Cross cultural Competence as
a 21st Century Warfighting
Imperative
ID no 1 (Paper 59)
Merle Parmak
OBSCIF: Evaluating character
strengths
ID 50 (Paper 60)
Ole Boe
OBSCIF: Self-assessment and
observed behavior
ID 51 (Paper 61)
Ole Boe
Measuring character strengths
ID 52 (Paper 62)
Ole Boe
Antecedents to Cognitive Failure in
RCAF
ID 99 (Paper 63)
Luc Léveillé
Thursday, 10th November
0845-0900
Announcements (Dr Gurpreet Kaur)
0900-1000
Keynote 3: Dept. Personnel Management & Work & Organizational Psychology, Belgium
A modular Approach to Selection Procedures
Dr Filip Lievens
(Conducted by Swati Mukherjee)
Tea (Pre Function Area)
1000-1030
1030-1230
Room: Grand Ballroom 2
Session-14
Room: Grand Ballroom 3
Session-15
Room: Grand Ballroom 1
Session-16
Room: Mercury
Session-17
Room: Venus
Session-18
Selection
Resilience / Stress
Testing
Aptitude
Positive Psychology
Session Chair: Dr YK Nagle
Chair: Dr M Chaturvedi
Chair: Dr Rajni Verma
Chair: Dr K Srivastava
Chair: Dr Dolly Bansal
Theme
1030-1100
1100-1130
1130-1200
1200-1230
A need for Military Psychology
in Africa: African standby
Force as an Example
ID 15 (Paper 64)
Determining the Psychological
Fitness in the German Armed
Forces
ID 06 (Paper 68)
Psychological Testing for
Selection into the Nigerian
Defence Academy
ID 106 (Paper 72)
Development and Validation of
Computerised Sharpshooter
Selection Tests
ID 45 (Paper 76)
Character Strengths Predicting
Military Success in the Nigerian
Armed Forces
ID 55 (Paper 80)
Gideon A. J. van Dyk
Ulrich Wesemann
Philemon. A. Agashua
Ravi Dhandapani
Hauwa Aigboje
Norwegian Army: Improved
Selection to the Officer
Candidate School
ID 98 (Paper 65)
Analysis and Management of
Triggers for Violence in Public
Gathering
ID 66 (Paper 69)
Antecedents of Flourish in
Combatants: Implications for
Selection and Training
ID 41 (Paper 73)
Attributes and Skills Related to
Success in the South African
Operational Forces
ID 109 (Paper 77)
Indonesian Traditional Approach
Enhancing Psychological Wellbeing
ID 92 (Paper 81)
Henrik Sørlie
SureshKumar
E Kalpana Rani
Hanafi Prasetyo
Development of Test Battery to
Identify Potential Officer
Candidates
ID 49 (Paper 66)
Enhancing Positive Affect of
Soldiers: A Step Towards a
Resilient Force
ID 57 (Paper 70)
Development of Word
Association Test for Selecting
Indian Military Officers
ID 93 (Paper 74)
IshreenRawoot
Impact of Social Engineering
Policies on Military SOP and
Outcomes
ID 113 (Paper 78)
FarahKidwai
Harsheeta Roy Choudhury
P Kumar
Identification of Attributes –
Selection/Placement on
Officers in the Indian Navy
ID 86 (Paper 67)
Perfectionism, Perceived Stress
and Psychological Wellbeing
among QFIs of IAF
ID 28 (Paper 71)
Manohar Nambiar
1230-1330
Sameer Rawat
Exploring the Decision to Quit
among Sweden’s Part Time
Soldiers
ID 39 (Paper 79)
Kalpna Anand
Per Wikberg
Lunch
Enhancement of Positive
Psychological Strengths in
Defence Personnel
ID 74 (Paper 82)
Chitra Latha
Ego development and its relation
to attributes of military leadership
ID no 63 (Paper 83)
(Naaz Ataulla)
Chitra Latha
1330-1600
Room: Grand Ballroom 2
Session-19
Room: Grand Ballroom 3
Session-20
Room: Grand Ballroom 1
Session-21
Selection
Training
Resilience
Chair: Dr Shilpi Nanglu
Chair: Dr A Suresh
Chair: Dr Farah Kidwai
Theme
1330-1400
1400-1430
1430-1500
1500-1530
UK Service Women's
Propensity to Serve in
Ground Close Combat
ID 100 (Paper 84)
Influence of Military Basic Training on the
Stability of Personality
ID 54 (Paper 88)
Resilience Self-Concept ,Perceived Stress and
Coping in Defence Trainees
ID 75 (Paper 92)
Gail J Walker-Smith
Myckel Cremers
Harini Kumari Ramaswamy
Joint Terminal Attack
Controller: A Trial of
Enhanced Screening
Measures
ID 84 (Paper 85)
Psychological Results and Learning
Performance of Indonesian Frogman Trainee
ID 104 (Paper 89)
Augmenting Military Performance through
Resilience Enhancement (AMPERE)
ID 102 (Paper 93)
Melanie Cooper
Dewi Nurnindyah
Olaf Binsch
First steps in the
Development of a Resilience
Measure
ID 46 (Paper 86)
Enhancement of Aeronautical Decision
Making: Evaluation of Training Intervention
ID 42 (Paper 90)
Predicting Performance for Applicants to the
Norwegian Officer Candidate School
ID 69 (Paper 94)
Marie De Beer
Sowgandhi Chaturvedala
Thomas Hol Fosse
Development of Pictorial
Situational Judgment Test of
Values
ID 59 (Paper 87)
Factors Contributing to Voluntarily
Withdrawal during Military Selection
ID 110 (Paper 91)
The Experience and Insights of a Sports
Psychologist
ID 21 (Paper 95)
Durlabh Kowal
Ishreen Rawoot
Sridhar
1530-1600
Tea (Pre Function Area)
Departure
from Hotel
18:00
Closing Ceremony: Cultural Function, Performance by Indian Army Brass Band & Banquet
2100
Departure from the venue