Screening for Adaptability to Military Service

Abstract

A sample of 15,252 basic airmen were administered the history opinion inventory (HOI) during basic military training. The service careers of these subjects were monitored for two years in order to assess the ability of the HOI to predict the criterion of in/out of service. An a priori adaptation index developed from HOI items correctly identified as high risk 23 percent of those subjects discharged from service during the two year period, while incorrectly labeling as high risk only 6 percent of those subjects still in service after two years. The possibility of increasing the accuracy of prediction by utilizing biographic/demographic data and the operational usefulness of the HOI are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA014790

Entities

People

  • Allan L. Johnson
  • Jeffrey E. Kantor
  • Nancy Guinn

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Basic Training
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Training
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Quality Control
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Regression Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Theoretical Analysis.