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Morris, Phillip A.; Carpenter, Dick; Agbonlahor, Osasohan; Rodriguez, Freddie – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To examine perceptions of mental health stigma among first-year student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs). Participants: 107 SSM/Vs enrolled in a first-semester seminar completed a pre- and post-test measuring five constructs; 1) stigma toward mental health in the military, 2) academic readiness, 3) mental health stigma in college, 4)…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Bias, First Year Seminars, Veterans
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Chan, Hsun-Yu – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2018
This study examined the relationship between college readiness of student veterans and retention, graduation, or transfer. I analyzed transcript and administrative data for student veterans who used GI Bill benefits at a public two-year college in Wisconsin. Results from logistic regression show that successful course completion rate (earning a C…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Two Year College Students, Veterans, Correlation
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Ponder, Warren N.; Aguirre, Regina T. P.; Smith-Osborne, Alexa; Granvold, Donald K. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2012
Supportive relationships are protective against a number of prevalent health risks among military populations, including post-traumatic stress disorder. Increasing marital satisfaction and strengthening that relationship is an important avenue for maintaining health among returning service members and their families. The current study builds upon…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans, Marriage, Military Service
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Steenkamp, Maria M.; Nickerson, Angela; Maguen, Shira; Dickstein, Benjamin D.; Nash, William P.; Litz, Brett T. – Behavior Modification, 2012
The authors examined heterogeneity in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom presentation among veterans (n = 335) participating in the clinical interview subsample of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Latent class analysis was used to identify clinically homogeneous subgroups of Vietnam War combat veterans. Consistent with…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Foreign Countries, War, Veterans
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Downs, Guy H.; McAllen, Dorothy K. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2014
Universities have witnessed the consistent growth of increased college-level distance education programs with 32 percent of all students having taken at least one online course (Allen & Seaman, 2013). Key to this continued growth, however, is understanding the factors that contribute to the greatest growth and success in these programs.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Military Service, Performance Based Assessment
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Powell, Jonathan – Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012
Previous studies have attested to leaders "coup-proofing" their regimes by reducing the ability or disposition of their armies to seek their removal. The following article tests the utility of these efforts. "Structural" coup-proofing such as counterbalancing is expected to reduce the ability to organize a coup plot by creating substantial…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Participant Characteristics, Political Power, Power Structure
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Carrell, Scott E.; Malmstrom, Frederick V.; West, James E. – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
Using self-reported academic cheating from the classes of 1959 through 2002 at the three major United States military service academies (Air Force, Army, and Navy), we measure how peer cheating influences individual cheating behavior. We find higher levels of peer cheating result in a substantially increased probability that an individual will…
Descriptors: Military Service, College Students, Cheating, Peer Influence
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Peterson, Norman G.; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1990
Describes characteristics of experimental predictor battery of tests developed to supplement the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery for making selection and classification decisions for entry-level enlisted personnel. Explains procedures used to develop new test battery. Basic psychometric properties of each measure, as determine by large…
Descriptors: Classification, Military Service, Predictive Validity, Predictor Variables
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Wise, Lauress L.; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1990
Used data from 4,039 job incumbents from 9 military jobs to determine degree of validity generalization across major components of performance and degree of validity generalization across jobs within each major performance factor. Major findings were that different predictor equations were needed for each of 5 criterion factors. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Classification, Job Performance, Military Service, Predictor Variables
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Teachman, Jay – Sociology of Education, 2007
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that…
Descriptors: Military Service, Educational Attainment, Armed Forces, Volunteers
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Mayseless, Ofra; Scharf, Miri – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
A secure "state of mind with regard to attachment", as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), as well as attachment styles as assessed by questionnaires (the two most prevalent facets of attachment representations assessed in adolescence and adulthood) were examined as potential contributors to adolescents' capacity for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Military Service, Intimacy, Attachment Behavior
Lyle, Buddy – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1988
Army enlistees with General Educational Development (GED) certificates who completed military service (1,894) were compared with 2,085 GED enlistees who dropped out. Completers had higher GED scores and Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery subtest scores. It was recommended that GED scores be an integral part of recruitment screening and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dropouts, Enlisted Personnel, Military Service
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Johnson, Robert J.; Kaplan, Howard B. – Youth and Society, 1991
Examines factors predisposing to enlistment in the all-volunteer armed forces, using data from a 1971 sample of over 2,000 Houston (Texas) seventh graders, with followups in 1980 and 1988. Finds that volunteers are more likely to have experienced limited peer acceptance and some disruption of socioemotional ties and that they are amenable to…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Enlisted Personnel, Life Events, Longitudinal Studies
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McHenry, Jeffrey J.; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1990
Administered predictor battery of cognitive ability, perceptual-psychomotor ability, temperament/personality, interest, and job outcome preference measures to enlisted soldiers in nine Army jobs. Cognitive and perceptual-psychomotor scores provided best prediction of job-specific and general task proficiency. Findings suggest that Army can improve…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Enlisted Personnel, Interest Inventories
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Bleda, Paul R.; And Others – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1978
This study assessed the relative degree of association between quality of army life and perceived attributes of different types of leaders. Interviews with one hundred thirty lower ranking enlisted personnel provided information about soldiers' satisfaction with various facets of military experience and their perceptions of the behavior of…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Enlisted Personnel, Factor Analysis, Interviews
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