Initial Validation of the Military Operational Risk Taking Scale (MORTS)
| Autor: | Katherine E. Evans, Paul W. Miller, Todd C. Sander, Nausheen Momen, Genieleah A. Padilla, Amanda E. Markham, Mihir Gandhi, Ricardo Pietrobon, Marcus K. Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Active duty
Varimax rotation Applied psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Operational risk Military personnel Convergent validity Scale (social sciences) medicine Anxiety Operations management medicine.symptom Psychology General Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Reliability (statistics) |
| Zdroj: | Military Psychology. 22:128-142 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7876 0899-5605 |
| Popis: | Risk is an inherent component of military operations. A 31-item Military Operational Risk Taking Scale (MORTS) was developed to identify military personnel with the tendency to engage in or avoid operationally nonessential risks that are maladaptive to the mission. Three hundred and thirty-three active duty Marine Corps personnel completed the MORTS along with two measures of non-military-specific risk taking: Domain-Specific Risk-Attitude Scale (DOSPERT) and Evaluation of Risk Scale (EVAR). The participants also completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The MORTS had excellent internal reliability and convergent validity with risk-taking scales of other domains. The responses to the 31 items of the MORTS were subjected to principal components analysis (PCA) with a Varimax rotation. Preliminary findings demonstrated that the MORTS may identify individuals who are likely to participate in essential/adaptive versus nonessential/maladaptive operational risk. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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