Methods, systems and apparatuses for matching individuals with behavioral requirements and for managing providers of services to evaluate or increase individuals' behavioral capabilities

A process for defining a set of essential behavioral requirements for a particular role and situation, said process comprising the following steps:

• specifying tasks, each with associated outcomes, required for an individual to meet the criteria of desired performance in the specific role and situation;
• specifying alternate sets of activities and techniques that may be used to carry out required tasks so as to attain all required outcomes;
• specifying a set of dimensions of necessary and sufficient human abilities of all types, in a typology of behavioral requirements applicable to all roles in all situations, that are involved in carrying out each of the alternatively required sets of activities and techniques;
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• specifying the required level of each of the necessary and sufficient abilities.

A process for identifying individual's behavioral capabilities as differences between attained levels and required levels of all types of abilities required for any role and situation comprising the following steps:

• identifying one or more behavioral indicator items of ability levels at and around the required ability level in each dimension on a scale with invariant parameters;
• obtaining and processing data, in each dimension, on an individual's performance on one or more of the identified items at and around the required level;
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• displaying a profile or the differences between attained and required abilities.

A process for evaluating interventions targeted at accomplishing increases in individuals' abilities comprising the following steps:

• defining the levels in all dimensions hypothesized as required prior to the intervention for an individual to attain targeted increases through a particular intervention, including the dimension or dimensions targeted for increase, on scales with invariant parameters for all dimensions;
• defining the set of non-behavioral, pre-intervention, individual statuses hypothesized as causally affecting the effects of the intervention,
• defining a hypothesized relationship between pre-intervention ability levels and conditions with attained post-intervention ability levels in the dimension or dimensions targeted for increase;
• obtaining data on ability levels, in the same set of dimensions hypothesized as required, of a statistically significant number of individuals before, during and immediately after the particular intervention, all on the same scales used to define requirements;
• obtaining data on the pre-intervention conditions, hypothesized as affecting intervention effectiveness, or the same individuals on which ability level data has been obtained;
• processing the data on ability levels to determine the statistical probability of the particular intervention, and of the individual's prior attainment of hypothesized pre-intervention requirements, affecting post-intervention increases in an individual's levels of abilities attainment, for individuals with different ranges of pre-intervention ability attainments and conditions;
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• comparing the statistical probabilities of the particular intervention's affects with an average probability of the affects of all interventions targeting individuals with similar pre-intervention abilities and conditions and similar post-intervention ability attainments.

A system for matching individuals with the behavioral requirements of particular roles in situations, said system comprising:

• means for entering and storing data on individuals using the system, including their identity and their performance of indicators of the attainment on scales with invariant parameters of all types behavioral capabilities as required for any role and situation;
• means for entering, storing, selecting and carrying-out statistical procedures with which to establish the characteristics of and between behavioral indicator items, individuals and individuals' performance of behavioral indicators;
• means for entering and storing data on role situation requirements;
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• means for comparing data on one or more role situation requirements with data on one or more individuals.

An algorithm to identify the relative stressor levels of mediated presentations, for the purpose of considering the tension inducing effects of such presentations upon media users, comprising the following steps:

• identifying the required behavioral capabilities, other than stress management related, for appropriate user response to each of a multiplicity of presentations;
• identifying a multiplicity of individuals with reliable data on their respective attainment of the required behavioral capabilities, other than stress management related, for appropriate user response to the multiplicity of presentations;
• obtaining data on the tension experienced by each individual and the responses of each individual while interacting with each of the presentations;
• processing the data on identified presentations and individuals, utilizing one or more statistical techniques, to establish one or more hierarchical relationships among the individuals of their relative vulnerability to tension inducement, hierarchical relationships among the presentations or their relative stressor levels and indices of the fit of the data on each individual and on each presentation to the statistically derived theoretical model on which the established hierarchical relationships have been predicated;
• eliminating the data on individuals and presentations below an acceptable fit and reprocessing the remaining data, continuing to so eliminate and reprocess until all remaining individuals and all remaining presentations have an acceptable fit to a statistically derived model for establishing hierarchical relationships of tension vulnerability among individuals and stressor levels among presentations;
• constructing a scale, for one or more relationships between presentation required an individual attained capabilities other than stress management related, relating known individuals' tension vulnerability and known presentations' stressor level;
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• identifying the unknown stressor levels of particular presentations on the scale through reference of the tension induced by the particular presentation in individuals of known tension vulnerability.