Completion of the First Enlistment by Female Personnel: A Prediction Study.

Abstract

Two questionnaire forms--QUEST 1 and QUEST 2--were developed and one or the other was administered to approximately 1,000 female Navy recruits. The questionnaires included items under eight categories--personal history, female role ideology, mental health, motivation to fail, realistic expectations about the Navy, motivation to enlist, similarity to successful recruits, and occupational needs. In an attempt to predict attrition during the first enlistment, seven scales were developed using validation samples. These scales were scored in three different ways using cross-validation samples and correlation coefficients were computed. Results showed that 13 of 21 scale scores were significantly correlated with attrition, the highest correlation being .25. The practical significance of this correlation was evaluated using Taylor-Russell tables and discriminant analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA130247

Entities

People

  • Gerry L. Wilcove

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Applied Psychology
  • Attrition
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Educational Psychology
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • Mental Health
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Regression Analysis
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.