The Navy Adjective List as a Predictor of Enlisted Retention

Abstract

The heavy loss of highly trained and experienced naval personnel who fail to reenlist continues to be a major personnel problem. One approach to reducing the impact of turnover is to place men with the greatest likelihood of reenlistment in assignments which are most critical and for which training is most expensive. The present research evaluates the effectiveness of an experimental test, the Navy Adjective List (NAL), in identifying men with superior reenlistment likelihood. The relationship between several types of NAL scale scores and subsequent career decisions was determined for a sample of 390 men who had been tested as recruits.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0753204

Entities

People

  • Lynn A. Lacey
  • Norman M. Abrahams

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Air Force
  • California
  • Classification
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • Naval Personnel
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Reenlistment
  • Security
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design