Dimensionality of military job satisfaction 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 809-819

  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; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WORK;

ADULT; CAREER MOBILITY; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; JOB SATISFACTION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042704732     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3.809     Document Type: Review

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