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EXPRESSED ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN RELATION TO THE ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVE, NEUROTICISM AND SCHOOL SUCCESS
Author(s) -
FINLAYSON D. S.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1972.tb00696.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , psychology , need for achievement , developmental psychology , academic achievement , normative , social psychology , personality , philosophy , epistemology
S ummary . The relationship of two motivational measures, n/achievement and neuroticism, with expressed achievement motivation was examined in groups of successful and unsuccessful secondary school boys in a three‐way analysis of variance. When the expressed motivation was of a fantasy nature it was found to be associated with neuroticism in both groups, but when real‐life items were used to elicit it, the direction of the relationship with n/achievement and neuroticism was contrary in the successful and unsuccessful groups. Among the successful there was an increasing drop in achievement motivation from the consistently high n/achievement and neuroticism groups through the inconsistent groups (high n/achievement low neuroticism, low n/achievement, high neuroticism) to the consistently low n/achievement and neuroticism groups while amongst the unsuccessful groups there was a corresponding rise. This result in the unsuccessful group was interpreted as a resolution of the conflict they experienced between normative expectations for success and information about their actual performance.