Schooling Occupational Motivation, and Personality as Related to Success in Paramedical Training.

摘要

Measures of prior schooling experience, motivation for working in a health care job, and personality were evaluated as potential predictors of paramedical training success in the U.S. Navy. When these measures were added through multiple regression procedures to the aptitude measure presently employed for guiding recruits into health care jobs, the cross-validity for predicting a school completion criterion was significantly increased (p<.001) from .40 to .50. Practical means for applying these measures to the screening of candidates for paramedical training were developed and discussed. (Author)