Following the link you will find a phd thesis (2016) on pilot behaviour in accident scenarios. Attitude is instigated as one of several potential causes (neglect of flight planning, pre-flight inspections and checklists). Typically for a phd thesis, the author recommends further studies on the subject. These shall be based on non-punitive review of flight recorder data as an alternative to cockpit cameras.
Much useful material is available but largely produced in times earlier than you stipulated. The following paper may be of use as an overview of multi-crew operational interactions:
Ganesh, A. and Joseph, C. (2005) Personality studies in aircrew: An overview. Ind. J Aerospace Medicine 49(1).
available for download at http://medind.nic.in/iab/t05/i1/iabt05i1p54.pdf
This is an enormous topic. I wish you well in distilling material to correlate pilot personality traits and their contributions to consequential accidents.
There is something of a consensus among those of us who do this kind of thing that trying to determine an "accident-prone" personality is problematic. I, myself, have certainly tried and failed. It's one of those ideas that magically comes up about every 5-10 years. Someone new to the workforce says "Why don't we see if personality tests can predict aviation accidents." They try,spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, fail, and then 5-10 years later, repeat the process. This is not to say it's am impossibility, only to say it's been a Holy Grail of the aviation research community for a long time, and no Indiana Jones has yet to step forward and clearly claim the prize.
Part of the problem may be that, to a substantial degree, both (1) personality and (2) risk-taking may be domain-specific, implying that any test given outside a real-world aviation situation may not show much. For notion (1), reference:
Mischel, W. (1973). Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality. Psychological Review, 80, 252-283.
Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (1995). A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Psychological Review, 102, 246-268.
Shoda, Y., Mischel, W., & Wright, J. C. (1993). The role of situational demands and cognitive competencies in behavior organization and personality coherence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1023-1035.
For notion (2) reference:
Weber, E.U., Blais, A.-R., & Betz, N. (2002). A domain-specific risk-attitude scale: Measuring risk perceptions and risk behaviors. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 263-290.
I realize that these publications dates don't fall within your time prarameter. But, if you want to do justice to the topic, you really can't limit yourself like that.
Best of luck, and do let me know if you end up finding anything interesting.
I've conducted research in the areas of tolerance for Ambiguity, Burnout (Psychological Fatigue), Authentic Leadership Attributes and their influence on Safety Culture. Here's a link to one of my papers: http://www.davidpublisher.com/index.php/Home/Article/index?id=26748.html
I agree with William. It is hard to determine if there is a link between personality and potential for accidents. The problem is twofold: one is there are so many measures of personality - which one do you choose? which is best? Second, most if not all studies utilize a "what if" approach, meaning you simulate condition or ask questions rather than looking at the individuals who were involved in the accidents (many of them being dead, of course). A while back, I tried to rectify this in terms of pilot attributes and flight conditions by comparing those who were not in accidents and from data in accident reports. Here are some places to look:
Čokorilo, O., De Luca, M., & Dell’Acqua, G. (2014). Aircraft safety analysis using clustering algorithms. Journal of Risk Research, 17(10), 1325-1340.
Brown, W. L., & Gilchrist, W. J. (2016). Assessing productivity to address safety concerns for information technology and promoting global standardization within aviation practices. Global Journal of Information Technology, 5(2), 56-61.
Chittaro, L., Buttussi, F., & Zangrando, N. (2014, November). Desktop virtual reality for emergency preparedness: user evaluation of an aircraft ditching experience under different fear arousal conditions. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (pp. 141-150). ACM.
Edwards, W. J. (2015). The Efficacy of Aircraft Type Club Safety. Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering, 5(1), 7.
Archer, S. K. (2015). Gender, Communication, and Aviation Incidents/Accidents. Journal of Media Critiques [JMC], 1(2).
Ison, D. (2014). Correlates of continued visual flight rules (VFR) into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) general aviation accidents. Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 24(1), 1.
Thank all of you for the responses which are helpful. My dissertation only allows up to 20% of the citations to be over 5 years old of the date of submission which limits a lot of my work to 2013 and up. This site has been so helpful since I am not at ERAU or a college with an aviation program.