Analysis of the Correlation between Psychological Variables and U.S. Navy Officer Promotion

Abstract

This thesis studies the relationship between promotion patterns in the United States Navy and psychological test data available on a group of former Naval Postgraduate School students. It is hypothesized that personality characteristics and intelligence indicators are related to promotability and from this it is inferred that these indicators can be utilized in predicting a successful Naval career.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA027239

Entities

People

  • John F. Anderson
  • Raiford W. Cooper Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • California
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Pain
  • Personality
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Schools
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML