Navy Quality of Life (QOL) Program Contributions to Readiness and Retention. Volume 1. Design and Methodology

Abstract

Quality of Life (QOL) decision-makers need complete and accurate information that will help them determine if funded QOL programs are actually contributing to positive perceptions of Navy life, and which of them have the greatest impact. The objective of this project was to design and implement a QOL assessment system and methodology that could be applied to the entire spectrum of QOL programs in the Navy. Such a system required measures that were specific enough to capture the variability of the various programs, but had sufficient consistency across programs to facilitate comparisons. Additionally, the QOL Program Contributions project captured program-specific data that was expected to help link Navy QOL programs with highly desirable military outcomes (i.e., impact on personal readiness and retention intent). The conceptual considerations involved in this project centered on creating a common metric that could be used to evaluate these seemingly dissimilar QOL programs. In addition to the program evaluation measures, items designed to measure the impact of QOL programs on highly desirable military outcomes (i.e., personal readiness and retention intent) were developed and evaluated. An additional consideration was whether the program rating could be directly related to the outcome measure or whether the program's impact on QOL served as a mediator variable as previous research has indicated when used in domain research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA406295

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Schwerin
  • Paul G. Michael
  • Zannette A. Uriell

Organizations

  • Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Consistency
  • Customer Services
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Financial Management
  • Naval Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Pilot Studies
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Quality Of Life
  • Training
  • United States

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