Need Satisfaction in the Identification of the DOR,

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether: (1) student pilots who voluntarily drop from the program (DORs) and those who successfully complete training enter the flight program with different 'needs,' and (2) whether DORs and 'completers' differ in their own evaluation of the program's ability to satisfy their needs. The needs that were explored were those of the Maslow hierarchy, including physiological, safety and security, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs. Eighty-seven aviation officer candidates were given a questionnaire designed to measure optimism, relevance, and importance in terms of the five needs described above. They were given the test initially on the third day after entering the program (Time I), and then again after 9 weeks of training (Time II). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0740800

Entities

People

  • John Burd
  • Steven F. Bucky

Organizations

  • Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Attrition
  • Biomedical Research
  • Flight Training
  • Identification
  • Judgment
  • Pilots
  • Questionnaires
  • Security
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Organizational Psychology.