We examined the effects of motivational interference resulting from tempting action alternatives among a sample of university students with respect to a new measure of different motivational qualities. Participants imagined themselves in a typical study-leisure conflict and provided information about their internal conflict experience in two…

This article reflects on and discusses Central and Eastern European (CEE) learners' adaptability and achievement in one English post-1992 university. There appears to be a scarcity of studies of values, beliefs, attitudes and needs as well as achievement (and factors contributing to it) between CEE and other learners. Since the expansion of the…

In modern expectancy-value theory (EVT) in educational psychology, expectancy and value beliefs additively predict performance, persistence, and task choice. In contrast to earlier formulations of EVT, the multiplicative term Expectancy x Value in regression-type models typically plays no major role in educational psychology. The present study…

The present study examined the relationships between thinking styles and achievement motivation among Chinese university students. The Thinking Styles Inventory--Revised (TSI-R; Sternberg, Wagner, & Zhang, 2003) and the Achievement Motives Scale (AMS; Gjesme & Nygard, 1970; Ye & Hagtvet, 1988) were administered to 238 Chinese…

In this paper, the influence of personal networks and social support on study attainment of students in university education is examined. Furthermore, the paper aimed at clarifying the possible mediating role of achievement motivation, time spent on studying and working, procrastination and self-esteem. The study is a follow-up of the '89 cohort…

Assessed the performance of college students (N=188) on a wheel-turning task in which easy, moderately difficult, or very difficult goals were self-selected, experimenter imposed, or not present. Choice was motivating for low need achievers, who selected a difficult goal. However, experimenter imposition motivated low need achievers with easy…

Findings are interpreted to support the hypothesis that the subjective probability induced by normative feedback mediates performance via an experimentally produced motive-like orientation. (Author/RC)

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)

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…

The results suggest that role orientation and achievement motivation of women influenced causal attribution for success and failure outcomes. In some cases these subject variables interacted with the competitiveness of the situation and with sex of partner or of opponent in determining causal ascriptions. (Author/AM)

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)

A study was done to investigate the role of chief academic development officers (CADOs) as fund raisers for institutions of higher education in relation to program success and work motivation. The study was designed to: (1) profile the personal motivation of CADOs in higher education; (2) see if significant differences existed in what motivates…

A large body of literature examines the effects of goal setting on performance. However, relative to the amount of research examining the goal setting-performance relationship, there has been little investigation of dispositional influences on goal commitment. Understanding why people become committed to goals is important because commitment is a…

Reliability and validity data are reported for a 38-item questionnaire measure of individual differences in achieving tendency, which is an expanded and improved version of Mehrabian's scales. (Author/JKS)

This study focuses on whether male and female achievement motivation can be measured with a common instrument. Analyses using 83 male and 184 female college undergraduates indicate that, regardless or whether items were originally intended for one particular sex, they appear to be equally appropriate for measuring either. (BH)