PILOT STUDY ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAIT OF MILITARY PERSONNEL / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

The psychological quality of military personnel is an important research topic in military psychology. The present rating scale for psychological quality of military personnel consisted of 30 items, and with this scale 94 military officers of 3 different rank groups were subjected to the test. 18 items were screened out as the items concerning basic psychological quality of military personnel according to the following two criteria (1) more than 80% of the officers selected this item; (2) the mean score of the item was more than 1.00. Analysis of the results showed that, the connotation and denotation of the psychological quality of military personnel were in a certain degree similar to that of the general definition, and they also represented some special characteristics required by military settings. This study suggested that these 18 items reflected the basic elements of structural extension of the psychological quality of military personnel.