A Study on the Cultural Trait of Korean Pilots;Focused on the Typology of Preferring Value

한국인 조종사들의 문화적 특성에 관한 연구;선호가치 유형을 중심으로

The purpose of this study was to classify the cultural traits of Korean pilots who worked in two airlines in Korea. This study measured the typology of preferring value(horizontal-collectivism, horizontal-individualism, vertical-collectivism, vertical-individualism) with thirty two items developed by Triandis(1995), and analysis based on the target of 135 samples using SPSS 8.0. The result of this study shows that horizontal-collectivism were to predominant overall. It was also founding the captain had the collectivism oriented behavior, and the first officer had the individualism oriented behavior. Another finding of this study is that vertical oriented behavior were majority among the former military trained pilots, and horizontal oriented behavior were majority among the civilian trained pilots.