Prueba estandarizada para medir el perfil psicológico del personal que causará alta en el Ejército y Fuerza Aérea Mexicanos

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In Mexico there is a lack of psychological instruments specifically designed to select personnel who wish to enter the Mexican Army and Air Force. OBJECTIVE: Design a standardized test that measures the psychological profile of personnel who will be discharged in the Army and Air Force. MATERIAL AND METHODS: non-experimental biphasic, observational, descriptive, and correlational study of Mexican youth. Psychological profile of deserter personnel was obtained and the drafting and structure of reagents were checked, validity was obtained by judges, piloting was carried out in personnel of several Military Regions. And statistical analysis of reliability and validity of reagents. For its standardization was applied to young military (n = 1372) and civilians (N = 456), with ages ranging from 18 to 30 years. Data were analyzed in phases through Pearson's c2 and Mann-Whitney U, Cronbach's Alpha and factorial analysis. RESULTS: After analysis of principal component factors with varimax rotation, the test consisted of 272 reagents distributed in 16 scales: 5 personality, Afability, Openness to experience, Responsibility, Extroversion, Emotional Stability; 4 related to risk factors and protective factors: Physical Health; Ambivalence; Depressive mood; Resilience; 4 scales are related to human values, self-promotion, self-transcendence, openness to change and conservation and the last three scales, personal interest, conventional and postconventional, collect information related to moral development. The internal consistency estimates of each of the scales are in the range of ? = .721 to .896. CONCLUSION: We obtained a valid, reliable and standardized test that is called SMIP-A.