Preliminary Tabulation by Rank and Sex of Selected Responses in an Attitude Questionnaire

摘要

During the two-week period 9-22 January 1978, ARI administered a 134-item questionnaire to approximately 1100 soldiers (both men and women, officers and enlisted) stationed in CONUS and USAREUR. The primary objective was to find out if the quality of data in a projected investigation of soldier attitudes is likely to be affected by certain variations in how the questions are worded and formatted. A second objective was to provide preliminary evidence concerning soldiers' attitudes regarding the use of women in a variety of rather specific combat-related roles. With respect to this second objective, however, the interest was not so much in the attitudes themselves as in the relationship these attitudes may exhibit to such things as previous experience working with soldiers of the opposite sex, combat experience, and desire to stay in the Army. The present research memorandum presents and briefly discusses tabulations (by rank and sex) of some of the items used in the research effort described above. Susequent reports will present and discuss the data on the methodological questions that were at the heart of this effort and the question of whether the attitudes are related to variables such as experience working with members of the opposite sex.