Jyh-Long Yan
Department of Applied Psychology Fu-Jen Catholic University
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the essence of military morale and to develop a scale to measure military morale. According to the empirical data from focused group interview and general interview, the author attributes morale as a potential spirit. The essence of the potential spirit is a special type of relationship among group members. The potential spirit can be evolved when the goal of organization becomes obvious. With the results of past morale studies and empirical interviews of this study, the author also developed a morale scale. Two groups of subjects (formal administration & cross validation; N=311, 373 ; separately) were asked to complete this scale. The empirical data show that the scale is impressive in terms of its internal-consistency reliability and criterion-related validity. After factor analysis, it shows that this scale is a single factor structure. The cross-validation examination shows that the single factor structure of the scale is reliable and consistent. Finally, the author proposes a hypothetical model of military morale in terms of the result of this research.
Keywords：morale, military morale, morale scale