Internal Analysis of the Group Awareness Test for the Differential Officer Battery

摘要

The Group Awareness Test was developed as part of an extensive program of research to determine the extent to which ability to meet the psychological demands of combat, administrative, and technical officer assignments can be diferentially predicted by psychological measures. On the basis of item analysis against performance ratings after about 18 months of service, the earlier battery--the Diferential Officer Leadership Battery (DOL)--was revised and shortened to form the Differential Officer Battery (DOB). The Group Awareness Test (GAT) was included in the experimental DOL in an effort to measure the officer's empathy or ability to estimate the opinions of peers and subordinates. The present Research Memorandum describes the internal analysis of the GAT, as revised, for the purpose of deriving psychologically homogeneous scales for scoring the instrument. Specific objectives were: (1) to identify relatively independent factors which can be reliably based on exclusive sets of items in the GAT; (2) to relate such factor scales to each other and determine to what extent such factors correspond to the major hypothesized dimensions of combat, administrative, and technical requirements; and (3) to select scales for scoring and validation in subsequent research.