Postcombat Military Job Satisfaction Among Vietnam Helicopter Aviators

This project investigated the relations between recalled job-satisfaction, ability, and task demands in Vietnam era helicopter aviators. It attempted to detect and describe factors present in a dangerous combat environment which may influence some individuals to enjoy and take satisfaction at being exposed to, creating, and participating in the dangerous and life threatening violence involved in helicopter combat. Participants were 30 pilots and crew members retired from the 335th Assault Helicopter Company who were all actively involved in combat in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970. This study found that developing a love of war is correlated with anger during combat. The love of war is not correlated with PTSD processes nor is it correlated with specific personality dimensions. The love of war research is a new area. The questions were used to operationalize the love of war represent a significant limitation. This method of operationalizing the love of war concept does not make fine discriminations has questionable content validity. To facilitate accuracy in discriminating between participants when conducting future research in the area, researchers could benefit from constructing a measure with greater content validity.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Crisp, William A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sewell, Kenneth W.
• Guarnaccia, Charles A.
• Cox, Randall J.
• Quinn, James

• Helicopter pilots -- Psychology.
• Helicopter pilots -- Job satisfaction.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Psychological aspects.
• Combat -- Psychological aspects.
• love of war
• task demands
• postcombat
• PTSD
• job satisfaction

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Crisp, William, A.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 69665811
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4972/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc4972

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc4972