The potential usefulness of the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (CAQ) in the selection of police officers was explored in a two-part discriminative analysis and classification study. Five hundred sixty-five police applicants were given the CAQ prior to receiving a standard psychological evaluation, which resulted in 129 being rejected as psychologically unsuited for policework; 436 were accepted into the police academy for training. In Part I, the CAQs of the accepted and rejected applicants were subjected to a discriminant analysis and classified according to the derived discriminant functions: overall proportion of correct predictions--white males, .63; black males, .73; hispanic males, .92; females, .94. In Part II, the CAQS of those cadets who successfully completed training and probation were compared with those of cadets who terminated while performing inadequately: overall proportion of correct predictions--white males, .70; black males, .84; hispanic males, .82; females, .97. It would appear, based on this study, that the CAQ offers some usefulness in police officer selection. Any definitive statement as to its applicability should await its trial combination with other dependent predictor variables relevant to police selection and a cross-validation to determine the shrinkage in the prediction rate to be expected. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-10, Section: B, page: 4194. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74677 |
| Contributors | HART, RION NEUMANN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 65 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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