Validation Study of the Troop Adjustment Scale in Military Soldiers

The purpose of this study was to accurately measure the extent of unit adjustment in a context where policies related to unit adjustment of military personnel are being implemented and interest in unit adjustment is high. To this end, the suitability of the unit adjustment scale developed by Stouffer et al. (1949), translated by Lee Yoon-hee (1963), and modified by Shin Tae-soo (1981) for the Korean military was verified. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis, 10 items were removed from the original 26 items, and based on the reliability analysis, the reliability value was highest when all 16 modified items were used. Next, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on these items to present the revised Korean Army Soldiers' Unit Adjustment Scale. The scale was composed of four subfactors as in the original scale. Three of the items, mental and physical condition, willingness to perform duties, and job position and job satisfaction, were the same as the original scale, but for the last factor, attitude toward the military organizational environment, the items were reviewed with the exception of the items that were deleted through the validity analysis, and it was found that it was appropriate to have one factor consisting of perceptions of military officers rather than overall attitudes toward the organizational environment. This study is significant in that it empirically validated the unit adaptation scale with military soldiers in a situation where validation of scales related to unit adaptation is lacking, and it is significant in that it deleted inappropriate items and revised the scale to fit the current military situation.