Establishment of competency model for military academy cadets

    TIAN Jianª²Quan£¬MIAO Danª²Min£¬LUO Zhengª²Xue£¬SUN Zhenª²Jiang£¬CHEN Jing

    1Department of Psychology£¬School of Aerospace Medicine£¬Fourth Military Medical University£¬Xi¡¯an 710033£¬China£¬2Department of Political Science£¬Xi¡¯an Military Academy£¬Xi¡¯an 710108£¬China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To investigate the psychological quality of qualified military academy cadets under the current situations and to establish a competency model for the selection of military academy cadets. METHODS: Following the literature review, 26 experts in the field of psychology and military administration, using Delphi's and the technique of multigrade fuzzy set, screened evaluating items for the questionnaire assessing the psychological qualifications of lowª²ranking commanders. 1143 cadets and 2741 officers were asked to give the value of multigrade fuzzy to the items in the questionnaire and based on the results, 14 experts in the field of psychology military administration decided on the evaluating items of psychological qualifications for military academy cadets. RESULTS: By means of multigrade fuzzy set, 37 items of psychological qualifications were chosen for the lowª²ranking commanders and categorized into 3 levels. Out of the 37 items, 11 items such as devotion and decision making capability were picked out to establish the competency model for military academy cadets. CONCLUSION: This competency model provides a theoretical basis for the psychological selection of military academy cadets. ......