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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
Peer reviewedJohnson, 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
Peer reviewedMcHenry, 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
Download full textRobins, Lee N. – 1974
This report, based upon case records and follow-up interviews with 965 U.S. Servicemen returning from Vietnam investigates: (1) the availability and utilization of narcotics, marihuana and alcohol in Vietnam; (2) the psychosocial and demographic predictors of pre- and post-Vietnam narcotic use; and (3) the post-Vietnam adjustment difficulties of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Drinking, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction
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
Bachman, Jerald G.; Segal, David R.; Freedman-Doan, Peter; O'Malley, Patrick M. – 1998
This study examines why some young men and women choose military service as well as what factors lead to successful enlisting among those who choose military service. It examines these questions using cross-sectional and longitudinal panel survey data from large nationwide samples of high school seniors, many of whom were followed into young…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Correlation, Demography
