USAF Family Survey: A Revision of the USAF Spouse Survey.
Abstract
Revises the U.S. Air Force Spouse Survey (AFSS) to improve its technical and statistical properties, and to broaden its usefulness for theoretical, research, and practical applications. The new survey is entitled the USAF Family Survey (AFFS). Includes a review of the current literature to establish the relative importance of factors in the AFFS vis-a-vis the link between work and family factors in the Air Force, and analyses of the survey results in the link between work and family factors in the Air Force, and analyses of the survey results in four categories: frequencies of item responses, tests of the item means between officer and enlisted spouses, correlations (tendency to vary together in some systematic manner) between items, and groupings of similar items. A spouse's attitude toward, and commitment to, the military lifestyle is the factor most often suggested as a family influence on the military member's job. Further, these attitudes seem to affect career intentions. Enlisted spouses in the sample indicated that they felt more involved with the Air Force lifestyle but also that they felt more stress and disruption from the Air Force lifestyle.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA160088
Entities
People
- M. R. Dansby
- P. A. Flannery
- R. Mickey