Exploratory Research on African-American Youth's Propensity to Join the Military.

Abstract

In this preliminary and mainly qualitative research effort we sought information about factors potentially affecting African-American youth's interest in joining one of the military services after high school. Each of 100 African-American high school juniors and seniors was individually interviewed by a male or female African-American adult whom the students were said to know and like. The interviews were conducted at a large city high school that was mostly Black. While the results of this effort are interesting in their own right, their primary values were to suggest variables to examine in a projected effort to model African-American enlistment propensity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA307050

Entities

People

  • Anne O. Hughes
  • Daryao S. Khatri
  • Joel M. Savell

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Discrimination
  • District Of Columbia
  • Education
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Military Research
  • Minority Groups
  • National Guard
  • National Security
  • Pilot Studies
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Recruiting
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Training

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