Comparison of behavioral styles between entering and graduating students in officer candidate school.

Abstract

2 groups of students in an officer candidate school (N = 880) are compared to determine their differences in behavioral styles The instrument used is the Job Analysis and Interest Measurement. There is a difference at the .01 level of significance in the mean scores between entering (N = 561) and graduating (N = 319) students in 4 prechosen behavioral dimensions. Entering students compared with graduating students place a higher value on approval from others In the 3 other scales considered, the mean graduating students' scores are higher than the entering students' scores. This indicates that graduating students as compared with entering students tend to be more selfassertive, are more likely to be persuasive leaders, and are more prone to like supervisory activities.

Stress and performance during and after Officer Candidate School.

“…Candidates who shifted their answers toward an active, aggressive coping style attained better class standings than those who did not shift. Using the Job Analysis and Interest Measure (JAIM), Petersen (1971) and Petersen and Lippitt (1968) found similar shifts of behavioral style within OCS. Petersen also found that behavioral style was related to success in OCS.…”

Selection of Air Traffic Controllers

“…For example, published reports available at that time (circa 1970) about several occupational groups that were carefully prescreened prior to entry-into-training revealed training-attrition rates ranging from 22% to 43%. Among these were attrition rates for Peace Corps volunteers (Gordon, 1967); nursing students in their first year of training (Katzell, 1968); nursing turnover in a teaching hospital (Saleh, Lee, and Brien, 1965); Army officer candidates during 23 weeks of training (Peterson and Lippitt, 1968); and naval aviation students (Bale and Ambler, 1971). …”