Relationships Among Four Measures of Achievement Motivation

Thomas R. Wotruba · Karl F. Price

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Short, objective tests of achievement motivation have considerable potential appeal to investigators for reasons of economy and ease of analysis. Two new paper-and-pencil tests of achievement motivation developed by Hermans and Mehrabian were examined to determine whether they might be comparable to two older measures, McClelland's TAT n-Ach and the achievement scale of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule. The four measures were administered to 65 undergraduate business administration students at San Diego State University. Although the results reflected a modest (.30) correlation between the Hermans and the TAT n-Ach, no other significant correlations among pairs of the four achievement measures were found. The results lend support to past findings; namely, that the various achievement measures would appear to be measuring dissimilar constructs.

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