Relations Between Conscious And Unconscious Manifestations Of Motivation In Children

Abstract

Interest strength in 36 attitudes was measured on 89 public school students by means of four indirect behavioral tests. Standard scores on Word Association and Information were combined to give the Integrated (conscious) scores, and those on Selective Memory and Autism were combined to give the Unintegrated (unconscious) scores. Eighteen hypothesized drive factors and four device factors were extracted. The centroid was partitioned, and the Unintegrated portion was rotated by Procrustes for pure drive factors. This portion was projected upon the Integrated realm by reassembling the centroid matrix, and rotating the whole to the Procrustes position obtained for the part. Overall results appeared to support the "structural" rather than the "topographic" approaches t o psychoanalytic theory.