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Russian Entrepreneurial Motive Patterns: A Validation of the Miner Sentence Completion Scale in Russia
Author(s) -
Tullar William L.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/1464-0597.00065
Subject(s) - sample (material) , scale (ratio) , test (biology) , sentence , sentence completion tests , psychology , social psychology , linguistics , geography , cartography , paleontology , chemistry , philosophy , chromatography , biology
This study utilises the Miner Sentence Completion Scale Form T, translated into Russian, to compare the entrepreneurial motivation of 120 Russian managers interested in entrepreneurial activity with an American sample found in Miner (1986). This contrast shows very substantial differences between the two groups. After four years a follow‐up study was conducted on the Russian sample. Of the 120 managers who originally took the MSCS, 58 men and women were found actually engaged in running their own businesses. Comparing this follow‐up sample with a similar one provided by Miner, Smith, & Bracker (1994) shows very little difference between American and Russian active entrepreneurs. Correlations of MSCS Form T with two criteria of entrepreneurial success show similar positive results for both samples. Implications for use of the test by Russian authorities are discussed.