title: Classifying U.S. Army Military Occupational Specialties using the Occupational Information Network.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To derive job condition scales for future studies of the effects of job conditions on soldier health and job functioning across Army Military Occupation Specialties (MOSs) and Areas of Concentration (AOCs) using Department of Labor (DoL) Occupational Information Network (O*NET) ratings.
  
  
  METHODS
  A consolidated administrative dataset was created for the "Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers" (Army STARRS) containing all soldiers on active duty between 2004 and 2009. A crosswalk between civilian occupations and MOS/AOCs (created by DoL and the Defense Manpower Data Center) was augmented to assign scores on all 246 O*NET dimensions to each soldier in the dataset. Principal components analysis was used to summarize these dimensions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three correlated components explained the majority of O*NET dimension variance: "physical demands" (20.9% of variance), "interpersonal complexity" (17.5%), and "substantive complexity" (15.0%). Although broadly consistent with civilian studies, several discrepancies were found with civilian results reflecting potentially important differences in the structure of job conditions in the Army versus the civilian labor force.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Principal components scores for these scales provide a parsimonious characterization of key job conditions that can be used in future studies of the effects of MOS/AOC job conditions on diverse outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, 620B-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6.
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gadermann
authors.affiliation: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
authors.forename: Steven G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Heeringa
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC: 0603, La Jolla, CA 92093-0603.
authors.forename: Murray B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Ursano
authors.affiliation: Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: Lisa J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Colpe
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors.forename: Carol S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Fullerton
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: Stephen E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Gilman
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
authors.forename: Matthew K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Nock
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: Anthony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Rosellini
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Sampson
authors.affiliation: Office of Science Policy, Planning and Communications, National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schoenbaum
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: Alan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zaslavsky
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: Ronald C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Kessler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008887:Military Medicine; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000145:classification*; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D009790:Occupations / Q000145:classification*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce