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The Special Assignment Battery (SAB) is an interest and biographical data instrument developed to meet personnel screening needs of the United States Marine Corps and Navy. Previous research on the SAB has focussed on the empirical keying of the instrument for the prediction of performance as a recruiter or drill instructor. Although both useful and well-conducted, past research on the SAB has done little to explicate the construct structure of the instrument. The present study fills this research gap. The construct structure of the SAB can be summarized with 8 factors and 16 subordinate clusters. This research also serves as a methodological case study in the value of exploring construct structure through multiple analysis methods.

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Factor and Cluster Analyses of the Special Assignment Battery

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