Reider observes that attitudes towards authority often present the most prominent psychological conflicts in officers. Many officers who were successful in civilian life because they were able to assume authority as a protest against authority, break down in the army when they are no longer in complete authority. Other individuals, who are dependent upon constant reassurance from higher authority, break down in the impersonal military situation. A third type of individual was able, over a long period of time, to make a rather rigid adjustment in civilian life, but is unable to make the quick changes necessary