Effects of Attendance at Initial Professional Military Education on the Personal Values of United States Air Force Officers

摘要

The primary purpose of this research study was to determine if initial professional military education has any effect on personal values. More specifically, it was to determine if attendance at Squadron Officer School changes the personal values of junior Air Force officers to make them more congruent with the personal values of successful Air Force officers (students at Air War College). Two widely used instruments were used to obtain the data, the Allport, Vernon and Lindzey Study of Values, and the Rokeach Value Survey. Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) and one-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were used to analyze the data. The conclusions were that junior Air Force officers' personal values were in fact different from the personal values of successful Air Force officers, and attendance at Squadron Officer School changes the personal values of junior officers to make them more congruent with the personal values of successful officers. (Author)