achievement motivation

The main exception to this was the finding that only children are generally higher in achievement motivation.

"A hierarchical model of approach and avoidance achievement motivation".

Content validity has been demonstrated by extensive research on all major aspects of achievement motivation.

Achievement motivation can be broken down into three types:

Bernard Weiner got interested in the field of attribution after first studying achievement motivation.

Achievement motivation, the concern for excellence, is often manifested in the leader claiming to do "good" or "better".

An attributional theory of achievement motivation and emotion.

The advantage of only children in test scores and achievement motivation may be due to the greater amount of parental attention they receive.

A questionnaire measure of achievement motivation.

Women had been found to have similar or higher achievement motivation than men, but they showed less susceptibility to techniques designed to arouse this motivation.

Using Atkinson's (1964) theory of achievement motivation, researchers were interested in explaining the differences in classroom learning styles.

Lastly, achievement motivation has demonstrated to not correspond with political success, especially if it is higher than power motivation (Winter, 2002).

Weiner, an attribution theorist, modified his original theory of achievement motivation to include a controllability dimension.

Based on LEQ, participants reported a major change in achievement motivation and task leadership.

AMI is assessing 17 dimensions of work related Achievement Motivation.

"Agency, communion, and achievement motivation".

Hypotheses of positive relationships between androgyny and emotional adjustment, achievement motivation, self-esteem and interpersonal relations, became popular starting points for research.

"Achievement motivation".

Aside from scoring significantly better in achievement motivation, only children score significantly better in personal adjustment to new situations.

Internals were believed by Rotter (1966) to exhibit two essential characteristics: high achievement motivation and low outer-directedness.

The uses of sentence completion tests include personality analysis, clinical applications, attitude assessment, achievement motivation, and measurement of other constructs.

"That's what we struggled for," said Mrs. Horner, a 49-year-old psychologist whose research in the 1960's on achievement motivation among women received widespread attention.

He found that distal individual differences of achievement motivation, energy, dominance, honesty/integrity, self-confidence, creativity, and charisma were strongly correlated with leader effectiveness.

Achievement motivation was studied intensively by David McClelland and his colleagues since the early 1950s.

Among underclass youth, achievement motivation is low, education is undervalued, and conventional means of success and upward mobility are scorned.