TY - JOUR
AU - Roff, Merrill
AB - Published as a separate and in The Journal of Psychology, 1950, 30, 229-239. A STUDY OF COMBAT LEADERSHIP IN THE AIR FORCE BY MEANS OF A RATING SCALE : GROUP DIFFERENCES Institute of Child Welfare, University of MinneJota MERRILL ROFF A. INTRODUCTION This study is a continuation of the research on combat leadership in the air force, which was initiated in the AAP Aviation Psychology Program during the war.l As is indicated by a review of the literature on leadership made in connection with this set of projects (2), and by a second review prepared for the Navy (3), previous treatments of the leadership problem had consisted either of expressions of personal opinion or of factual studies in situations sufficiently different from aerial combat to be of doubtful ap- plicability. A set of related projects were thus initiated in this area, in the hope of obtaining factual information'of more pertinence than any then available. Following the collection and analysis of a large number of anecdotal descriptions of good and poor combat leaders and leadership, from re- turning aircrew officers in redistribution stations, a rating scale of traits related to leadership was constructed for research use. This was intended to 
TI - A Study of Combat Leadership in the Air Force by Means of a Rating Scale: Group Differences
JF - The Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00223980.1950.9916065
DA - 1950-07-01
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SP - 229
EP - 239
VL - 30
IS - 1
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