The California Psychological Inventory Given to Incoming AOC's and DOR's with Normal and 'Ideal' Instructions,
Abstract
The study was conducted in order to determine whether the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) would be able to discriminate between incoming aviation officer candidates (AOC's) and other students who voluntarily dropped out of the flight program (DOR's); and if not, whether changing the set so as to ask the subjects to take the test 'as they would like to be' would help make the discrimination. The CPI was administered to 95 AOC's and 51 DOR's with instructions to take the test with its normal instructions. Another group of 173 AOC's and 32 DOR's took the test with 'ideal' instructions. The results indicate that entering AOC's and DOR's obtained almost identical scores during normal administration of the test, but with the 'ideal' instructions, AOC's obtained significant elevations on 11 of 18 scales; whereas, only 2 scales were significantly elevated for the DOR group. The results suggest that the CPI should be investigated as a possible aid in the prediction of the DOR. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 11, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0725854
Entities
People
- Steven F. Bucky
Organizations
- Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory