State and Trait Anxiety in the Student Naval Aviator Who Voluntarily Withdraws from Flight Training,

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether student aviators who voluntarily drop out of the naval aviation training program (DOR's) respond differently to measures of state and trait anxiety from the way in which a group of entering aviation officer candidates (AOC's) and a group of male college students respond. The results indicate that DOR's are: (1) lower in A-State and similar in A-Trait when compared to entering AOC's; and (2) similar in A-State and lower in A-Trait when compared to the male college students. Although significant differences between entering AOC's and DOR's were observed, the ultimate usefulness of the STAI in predicting DOR's must await further investigation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 12, 1971
Accession Number
AD0727614

Entities

People

  • Charles D. Spielberger
  • Steven F. Bucky

Organizations

  • Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Aviation Personnel
  • Biomedical Research
  • California
  • Flight Training
  • Instructions
  • Naval Aviation
  • Personality
  • Pilots
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Students
  • Training
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.