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Table 2<br />

Professionalism Scales 3 - Component Solution<br />

Item Construct Comp 1 Comp 2 Comp 3<br />

1 Exp .496<br />

2 Exp .341<br />

3 Exp .398<br />

4 Exp .306<br />

5 Exp .367<br />

6 Exp<br />

7 Exp .326<br />

8 Exp .437<br />

9 Resp .329 .364 .344<br />

10 Resp .345 .365<br />

11 Resp<br />

12 Resp<br />

13 Resp<br />

14 Resp .307<br />

15 Resp .329<br />

16 Resp<br />

17 Resp .622<br />

18 Resp .699<br />

19 Resp .371<br />

20 Corp .429<br />

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Item Construct Comp 1 Comp 2 Comp 3<br />

21 Corp .347 .313<br />

22 Corp .599<br />

23 Corp .599<br />

24 Corp .481<br />

25 Corp .524<br />

26 Corp .566<br />

27 Corp .359<br />

28 Corp .507<br />

29 Corp<br />

30 Corp .371<br />

31 Corp .486<br />

32 Corp<br />

33 Corp .586<br />

34 Pride .489<br />

35 Pride .302 .405<br />

36 Risk Acc .646<br />

37 Risk Acc .651<br />

38 Risk Acc .776<br />

39 Risk Acc .730<br />

40 Risk Acc .748<br />

41 Risk Acc .729<br />

42 Risk Acc .723<br />

43 Risk Acc .710<br />

Note. Exp = expertise, Resp = responsibility, Corp = corporateness, Pride = national pride, and<br />

Risk Acc = risk acceptance.<br />

Overall, the results depicted in Tables 1 and 2 show that risk acceptance has the strongest<br />

psychometric properties of all our professionalism scales and responsibility the weakest. The<br />

conceptual definitions and items representing each of expertise, responsibility and corporateness<br />

need to be reviewed and likely require additional items and further psychometric evaluation.<br />

Professionalism-Outcome Relations<br />

As shown in Table 3, we found many positive (statistically significant) correlations<br />

between our professional scales and the other attitudinal outcome measures. For example,<br />

professionalism (operationalized as the sum of expertise, responsibility, corporateness, national<br />

pride, and risk acceptance) correlated .59 with OCB, .37 with overall satisfaction and .37 with<br />

commitment. Risk acceptance had lower, albeit positive and statistically significant correlations<br />

with the attitudinal outcome measures. The correlations between national pride and the outcome<br />

measures were stronger.<br />

Conclusion<br />

This paper presents the early stages of our work on measuring professional military<br />

attitudes. Some of our scales have sound psychometric properties and all scales correlate with

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