William E. Datel

Affect Levels in a Platoon of Basic Trainees

The Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL) with a weekly time-set was administered 9 times in a repeated measures design to a platoon of recruits (N = 39) undergoing basic combat training (BCT). The MAACL with a daily time-set was administered 10 times to the same platoon (N = 48) during an early portion of the BCT cycle. Analyses of variance performed on the raw Dysphoria scores revealed highly significant occasion effects, with the peak of distress occurring near the mid-point of the BCT process. Analysis after standard score transformation of the Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility raw scores suggested that specific affects may be more easily observed on some occasions than on others. Construct validity relationships were drawn between MAACL mean scores and external events. MAACL scale reliabilities were examined.

Affect levels in a company of basic trainees.

Previous study of affect Levels in basic training platoons (Datel, et al., 1966; Datel & Engle, 1966) was extended to an entire company of recruits (N = 140). Five platoons with 28 Ss each were repeatedly administered the weekly form of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (W-MAACL) throughout the basic combat training (BCT) process. An analysis of variance suitable for repeated measures on multiple groups was performed on transformed scores from the Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility scales obtained on 9 testing occasions. Scales, Occasions, and Scales × Occasions were statistically significant (p < .001). There was no main or interaction effect of platoons. The findings suggest that reliable affect changes do occur in basic training and that these changes occur similarly across platoons. An attempt was made to formulate tentative inferences concerning affect measurement of basic training stress from the empirical data collected in the three Fort Dix studies. … humours turn with climes … Pope, Moral Essays

Affect Levels in Another Platoon of Basic Trainees

In replicating an earlier field study (Datel, et al., 1966), the weekly form of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (W-MAACL) was administered 9 times to a platoon of recruits (N = 43) from beginning to end of the basic combat training (BCT) cycle. In comparing mean Dysphoria scale data from both studies, it was noted that upon entering the Reception Station both groups of Ss demonstrated nearly equivalent stress levels, both Dysphoria curves plotted over BCT time were roughly parabolic in shape, and both peaked at the same point in the training process. Analyses of variance revealed that scale scores again varied significantly with testing occasions and that affects interacted with occasions. It was suggested that Hostility may replace Anxiety over time, during BCT stress. Stress scores appeared higher in general than those in the first study and failed to return to baseline levels at the close of the cycle. Scale reliabilities were similar to previous findings. The more it changes, the more its the same thing. Alphonse Karr, Les Guepes: Les Femmes

Measurement of Achievement Motivation in Army Security Agency Foreign Language Candidates

THE three achievement scales of Gough’s (1957) Cali f ornia Psychological Inventory provide a means toward the assessment of the contribution afforded motivational, non-intellectual factors in academic achievement. Prior studies (Gough, 1961; Holland, 1959; Maxwell, 1960; Rosenberg, McHenry, Rosenberg, and Nichols, 1961) have demonstrated this fact. The data presented in this report represent an additional increment in the direction of delineat-

A Proposal to Substitute Formalized Information Feedback for Fee Payment in Socialized Medicine Systems

Analyses of the resource flow, of the dynamics of social exchange in the health care delivery process, and of the attendant reinforcement contingencies acting on the provider—each of these, in turn, compel the conclusion that the omission of fees-for-service, as in military medicine, is responsible for the deleterious effects that have come to be associated with applications of socialized medicine. Substituting systematized evaluative information feedback for fees-for-service may be a way to compensate for the inherent structural weakness in the socialized medicine model and thus to improve health care delivery in military and other socialized medicine systems.