The Effect of Need for Achievement on Learning and Speed of Performance

Abstract

Previously articles in this series have dealt with the effect of hunger drive on perception ( 6 ) ; and on thematic apperception ( 3 ) ; the effect of egoinvolvement, success and failure on perception ( 7 ) ; and the effect of the need for achievement on thematic apperception (9). An objective system of measuring achievement motivation ( n Achievement, following Murray, 12) has been developed (9) and refined (8). This measure of n Achievement has been shown to be related to apperceptive and clinical measures of achievement motivation (4) ; recognition of need related words (10) ; linguistic behavior

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.…”

The association between need of success, diet, social positioning and CHD risk

“…Data showed that n Ach material satisfaction is limited, and they are less likely to be private employees and more likely to be public sector employees, which corresponds to n Ach description in the literature (22,23,25). n Ach were not associated with heavy physical work at working place or leisure time, probably due to the fact that success in modern times is achieved primarily with intellectual rather than physical efforts, but this generates a risk of immobilization, which is a metabolic risk factor.…”

“…The high n Ach people are highly motivated to act for self-confidence (22). If the benefit is both material and social low and high n Ach show the same motivation and perform equally well.…”

From Readiness to Action: How Motivation Works

“…a goal box that contains the desired object. In the realm of achievement motivation, Atkinson (1954) interpreted Lowell's (1952) finding that high achievers performed an addition task faster as evidence that having a high degree of a particular motive (or Want)serves an energizing function. These and other empirical findings suggest that, unsurprisingly, the magnitude of a Want matters.…”