Dimensionality of military professional values items: An exploratory factor analysis of data from the Spring 1996 Sample Survey of Military Personnel

Psychological Reports

Volumn 92, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 831-841

  Schumm, Walter R ^a   Gade, Paul A ^b,c   Bell, D Bruce ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Research Institute   (United States)

^c US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAREER MOBILITY; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; CAREER MOBILITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042203522     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3.831     Document Type: Review

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