Families and Readiness: An Examination of the 1985 DoD Survey of Enlisted Personnel

Abstract

The existing literature on military families and readiness was reviewed, along with related literature from civilian population studies. Data from the 1985 DOD Survey of Enlisted Personnel were matched to Army records containing Skill Qualification Test (SQT) scores used to measure job performance. The results suggest that dependent care arrangements are a problem for a substantial minority of Army personnel in both short- and long- term situations (no-notice alerts and unit deployments). Although dependent care problems are of particular concern to single and dual military parents, parents married to civilian spouses also have dependent care problems. Analyses of SQT scores indicate that marital status is not significantly related to job performance; however, the presence of one or more children has a small positive relationship to job performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA203166

Entities

People

  • Rebecca M. Pliske

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Army Personnel
  • Business Administration
  • Classification
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Families (Human)
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Families
  • Military Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.