Psychosocial Predictors of Enlistment in the All-Voluntary Armed Forces: A Life-Event-History Analysis.

Johnson, Robert J.; Kaplan, Howard B.

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ERIC Number: EJ426527

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Publication Date: 1991

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Psychosocial Predictors of Enlistment in the All-Voluntary Armed Forces: A Life-Event-History Analysis.

Johnson, Robert J.; Kaplan, Howard B.

Youth and Society, v22 n3 p291-317 Mar 1991

Examines factors predisposing to enlistment in the all-volunteer armed forces, using data from a 1971 sample of over 2,000 Houston (Texas) seventh graders, with followups in 1980 and 1988. Finds that volunteers are more likely to have experienced limited peer acceptance and some disruption of socioemotional ties and that they are amenable to discipline. (DM)

Descriptors: Armed Forces, Enlisted Personnel, Life Events, Longitudinal Studies, Military Service, Motivation, Predictor Variables, Questionnaires, Social Class

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Texas (Houston)

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