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Role Effects on Need for Achievement and Performance
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The Sibling Experience: A Comparative Study of Relationship and Birth Order Factors in Predicting Personality Characteristics
… characteristics, as measured by the California Psychological Inventory (CPI). The predictive power of the SRQ was compared by multivariate analyses to that of birth order variables. The principal personality features investigated were need for achievement, need for affiliation, …
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Antecedents of Burnout Among Collegiate Tennis Players
… become to be regarded as a debilitative problem for athletes, but individual differences that may provide a buffer to burnout characteristics have only partially been examined. The purpose of this study was to examine the possible association between optimism, trait confidence, need for …
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Predictors of Major Commitment
… involvement), individual (e.g. job satisfaction, need for achievement), and demographic (e.g. gender, educational level) factors have been related to forms of career commitment (i.e. affective, continuance, and normative commitment), highlighting that the commitment one feels toward his or her …
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An Investigation of Locus of Control and Achievement Motivation in Physically Handicapped Community College Students
… of physical handicap, and locus of control and achievement motivation among community college handicapped students. Three categories of handicapped students were selected: (a) Deaf, (b) Blind, and (c) Orthopedically Impaired, and compared to able-bodied students on locus of control and …
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What does it take to get ahead? Investigating boundary conditions in the relationships among career-related psychological needs, ingratiation and promotability
… career-related benefits, such as positive performance evaluations, pay increases, and promotions (King, 2004). However, past research has disproportionately examined, predominantly separately, main-effect relationships between antecedents and ingratiation (Kacmar, Carlson & Bratton, 2004), and …
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What does it take to get ahead? Investigating boundary conditions in the relationships among career-related psychological needs, ingratiation and promotability
… career-related benefits, such as positive performance evaluations, pay increases, and promotions (King, 2004). However, past research has disproportionately examined, predominantly separately, main-effect relationships between antecedents and ingratiation (Kacmar, Carlson & Bratton, 2004), and …
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Individual Difference Moderators of Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Reactions to Hostile-Controlling Coaching Behaviors
… such as withdrawal from sport and decreased performance. Research has shown individuals who perceive coaches to be blaming increase their own self-blame (Conroy & Coatsworth, 2007). Individual difference variables may moderate how athletes respond to hostile-controlling coaching behaviors. The …
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Goal Orientation: A test of competing models
… measurement, and nomological network for learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation constructs. This study specifically tested the factorial and nomological validity of each model of goal orientation. The factorial validity was examined through a series of nested models …
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Learning, Prove, and Avoid Goal Orientations in Academics and Athletics: Cross-Structure Analysis and Domain Specificity
… motivation, self-efficacy, locus of control, need for achievement, desire to win, and fear of negative evaluation. The results suggest that learning, prove, and avoid goals can be empirically distinguished, that they are domain specific, but that they are not predicted well by ability, …
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A Comparative Study of Selected Personality Characteristics of Students Who Cheat and Do Not Cheat in an Academic Situation
… This was examined in terms of manifest needs, personality structure, and certain attitudes and values relative to the circumstances and setting in which the behavior occurred.</p> <p>The sample studied consisted of 64 students, classified into 8 groups, from a class of 198 students …
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Normative Influence and its Effect on Goal Commitment and Task Performance
… Problem. This study investigated the effect of need for achievement (nAch), need for approval (nAp), social influence, and depression on goal commitment and postperformance. It was hypothesized positive social influence would be associated with high commitment and postperformance. It was also …
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The impact of action strategies on the success of SME's in the South African context
… and (2002) that innovation, initiative and need for achievement have a positive impact on success. The researcher further argues that if the capacity of business owners is increased to adopt complete planning and critical point strategies as well as higher levels of entrepreneurial …
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The impact of action strategies on the success of sme's in a South African context
… and (2002) that innovation, initiative and need for achievement have a positive impact on success. The researcher further argues that if the capacity of business owners is increased to adopt complete planning and critical point strategies as well as higher levels of entrepreneurial …
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The role of organizational commitment and job satisfaction in progressive withdrawal behaviors: testing a comprehensive model with integrated methodology
This study examined several competing models for the hypothesized role that organizational commitment and job satisfaction play in withdrawal behaviors. These models were tested against a null or base model from which the other models were nested. The results supported the null model as best …
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The dark side of calling: a partial test of the work as calling theory (WCT) using the veterinarian occupational well-being study (VOWS)
… (n = 149), the current study found support for the hypothesized relationships between living a calling and job satisfaction, which was mediated by the disengagement aspect of burnout. The relationship between living a calling and disengagement was found to be moderated by perfectionistic …
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The Effect of Transient Mood on Performance Outcomes and Levels of Motivation Variables
… investigated the effect of transient mood on need for achievement (n Ach), need for approval (n App), need for power (n Pow), and performance outcome measures. It was hypothesized that subjects experiencing negative transient mood states would be associated with lower n Ach, lower n Pow, and …
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Reconceptualizing Women's STEM Experiences: Building a Theory of Positive Marginality
… marginality. A qualitative pilot study informed the generation of a measure of positive marginality which was administered to a sample of 105 sophomore and junior STEM majors (Study 1A) and a sample of 433 women working in STEM occupations (Study 1B). Exploratory factor analyses were …
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The relationship of achievement motivation and academic achievement with externalizing and internalizing emotionally and behaviorally handicapped children
… study was to examine the relationship between achievement motivation and academic achievement with externalizing (i.e., aggressive, acting-out) and Internalizing (i.e., Immature withdrawal) emotionally and behaviorally handicapped children. Furthermore, the mean difference in academic …
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