Achievement motivation in the social context: Implicit and explicit Hope of Success and Fear of Failure predict memory for and liking of successful and unsuccessful peers

Personality and pay: do gender gaps in confidence explain gender gaps in wages?

“…By collectively capturing the drivers that either induce or deter an individual from tackling a difficult or confronting task, Achievement Motivation provides a means of representing an individual's overall confidence to take on a challenge and put their capabilities to the test. Achievement Motivation and similar iterations, such as the 'need for achievement', have been applied across a broad spectrum of fields including academic performance (Gjesme, 1973;Duda and Nicholls, 1992;Steinmayr and Spinath, 2009;Sparfeldt and Rost, 2011;Wang and Eccles, 2013;Golsteyn and Schils, 2014), cognitive tasks (Lowell, 1952;Halisch and Heckhausen, 1989;Wooden, 2013), entrepreneurialism and investment (Bonnett and Furnham, 1991;Hansemark, 2003;Collins et al, 2004;Stewart and Roth, 2007;Mayfield et al, 2008;Caliendo et al, 2014), workplace performance (McClelland and Boyatzis, 1982;Goulet and Singh, 2002), physical and psychological health (Accordino et al, 2000;Cassidy, 2000;Stoeber and Rambow, 2007;Weaver et al, 2013), social interactions (Pang et al, 2009), and sport and athletic achievement (Gill et al, 1988;Duda and Nicholls, 1992;Sagar and Lavallee, 2010), with many of these studies focusing on children and adolescents. To our knowledge, the only previous studies to examine the link between Achievement Motivation and wage outcomes were based on a sample of full-time working men surveyed in the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) throughout the 1960s and 1970s.…”

Regional gray matter density is associated with achievement motivation: evidence from voxel-based morphometry

“…Achievement motivation predicts better performance in various domains and has thus been well studied (Pang et al 2009). It also predicts economic success and managerial ability at the workplace (McClelland 1961; McClelland and Boyatzis 1982).…”

Internal Versus External Control of Reinforcement in Health Risk and HIV and AIDS Prevention

“…The findings of this study are consistent with those of other studies on LOC and achievement‐oriented behavior in a health setting (Ebbeling et al., 2007; Hudley et al., 2007; Rotter, 1966). In this study, university students with an external LOC had low achievement goals; and they displayed a lack of interest in their personal health and HIV and AIDS risk‐reduction initiatives (Pang et al., 2009). In addition, low achievement‐oriented behaviors were associated with a lack of trust and interest in university grades, low health goals, and a discrepancy between behavior and expected health outcomes (Bembenutty, 2009).…”

“…Achievement‐oriented behaviors are associated with health‐promotion behaviors (Fiscella & Kitzman, 2009; Jerusalem, 2009). In social learning theory, achievement‐oriented behavior is associated with internal control of reinforcement and with health risk avoidance (Lefcourt, 1976; Pang, Villacorta, Chin, & Morrison, 2009; Rotter, 1982). In contrast, individuals with an external LOC tend to show low levels of achievement‐oriented behavior in disease risk reduction (Bembenutty, 2009; Marquez, Blissmer, & Prohaska, 2009).…”