See No Evil, Hear No Evil: Senior Leaders Social Comparisons, and the Low Salience of Racial Issues

Abstract

Four hypotheses are proposed and tested to investigate the role of social comparison as an influence on the extent to which racial issues are salient to senior military leaders. Working from an informational interdependence perspective, it is argued that by virtue of their demographic and hierarchical isolation, senior military leaders rely on social comparisons are favorable, reducing the salience of racial iussues for senior leaders in their units. Test of hypotheses using factor analysis, correlations, and regression techniques confirmed the presence and predicted influence of social comparison. Recommendations are offered for intervention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 1998
Accession Number
AD1072651

Entities

People

  • Rupert W. Narcoste

Organizations

  • Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Data Science
  • Factor Analysis
  • Hypotheses
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Intervention
  • Mathematical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Organizational Psychology.