Expectancies, performance, perceived ability, and causal attributions of males and females who were involved in competitive motor tasks after being matched with an opponent of similiar ability were studied. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Subjects (N=64) were given 20 minutes to work on a high-achievement-arousal or no-achievement-arousal task while faced with an opportunity to help a graduate student. Males proved significantly more likely to help in the no-achievement-arousal condition than in the high-arousal condition, whereas females' helping was not affected by…

Assessed needs for achievement (nAch), affiliation (nAff), and power (nPwr) among working managers (62 males, 62 females). Results indicate that women managers have a higher nAch, a not significantly different nAff, and a higher nPwr than managerial men. (Author/BL)

Administered the Fear of Success Scale to college students (N=194) to determine whether sex differences exist in the reasons for fearing high achievement. Results indicated no real sex differences in motivation to avoid success. (LLL)

Although a large body of research has investigated the possibility of motivational or attitudinal differences in men and women that would explain observable differences in levels of achievement, much of this research has failed to produce results. The failure of researchers to consider the characteristics of their college-student samples may have…

Investigates the relationships among managerial status, sex, and traits of aggression, dominance, achievement-orientation, and nurturance. Results for high achievement, high dominance, and low nurturance support the managerial stereotype. There was little support for the male managerial stereotype, since these traits appear in both males and…

Rapoport and Chammah's (1965) Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game research and Vinacke's (1959) parchisi board game research revealed that players used various strategies to reach their desired outcomes. The researchers ascribed the strategy variations to gender differences. A study was conducted which replicated Vinacke's parchisi board game and…

Concepts of inner direction and of other direction are related to sex differences in correlates and antecedents of achievement motivation and behavior. (Author/ED)

The validity of using seperate male and female scales for measurement of achievement motivation, as A. Mehrabian did, is seriously questioned. A variety of data are presented to support the case made against this practice. nAuthor/JKS)

Found managers do not differ significantly by gender in level of creative thinking, but do vary in creativity-job relationships. Need achievement was a significant predictor of creativity for men, while need affiliation predicted creativity in women. For women, age, education, and hierarchical level were positive predictors; organizational tenure…

A group of seventh graders was challenged to decide between achievement and social approval while playing a two-choice probability game. Girls sacrificed approval for achievement more often than boys and did not reduce their efforts to achieve even when there was no opportunity for approval. (KH)

Data from 68 female and 178 male first-year medical students indicate that the females were more achievement oriented and had higher needs for autonomy, dominance, exhibitionism, and order than the males. These results contrast with those from other studies. (Author/RL)

This paper, presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April 1975, reports taxonomy of six achievement motivation types, with categories based on an interaction between two factors. The hypothesis is proposed that females have been taught to emphasize achievement strivings and males the impact of achievement…