Military Community Cohesion.

Abstract

Several trends affecting the military make the cohesion of installations increasingly problematic. At the same time, recent work in military sociology contends greater attention should be paid to the integration of military units within the larger social entities. We report the results of a pretest conducted among 325 military personnel and spouses on an east coast air base to construct a measure of base cohesion. A principal components analysis yields two relatively stable and independent dimensions from the 50 Likert items we constructed. These reliable scales correlate well with measures of work unit cohesion and with a measure of neighborhood cohesion (especially among respondents in neighborhoods that are an extension of the base). They also correlate as well or better than work unit cohesion with measures of retention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA355361

Entities

People

  • Peggy Mcclure
  • Walter Broughton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • Human Population
  • Military Families
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Social Problems
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies
  • Sociology

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control