| Autor: |
Atkinson, John W., Reitman, Walter R. |
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Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology; Jul-Nov1956, Vol. 53, p361-366, 6p, 2 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
The article presents a study which examined the relationship of achievement motive to performance. Particular motives are conceived as latent disposition to strive for certain goal engaged in performance of an act. A motive to perform the act is conceived as a summation of strengths of all the motives that have been aroused by appropriate expectancies of goal-attainment cued off by the situation. The study found that the relationship of achievement motive to performance is shown to be significantly positive when the expectancy that performance is instrumental to producing a feeling of pride in accomplishment is aroused and few if any other expectancies of goal-attainment are aroused. It also tackled the joint effect of quantitative aptitude and achievement motive on arithmetic performance. |
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