Tests on Achievement Motivation
Various Tests on Achievement Motivation are available for diffferent purposes. We composed a list of Tests that are in line with Psychological standards of Testing throughout various nations. This list is not complete. Iif you wish to see another test (even if it´s yours) published here too, please feel free to contact us and we are more than willing to integrate it if it meets certain standards of psychometric qualiies. Please make sure that a sophisticated descriuption of its psychometric properties are handed in with your request on publication.
Tests for application in the world of work / IO-Psychology
Test | Description of Scales | Link |
Achievement Motivation Inventory AMI (Schuler, Thornton, Frintrup & Mueller-Hanson, 2004) | 170 items in total, 17 Scales, each scale has ten items. The items are, for the most part couched in a work context. Dimension specific scores are derived as well as an overall score. COMPENSATORY EFFORT: willingness to expend extra effort to avoid failure
COMPETITIVENESS: drive to win and be better and faster than others.
CONFIDENCE IN SUCCESS: belief in capacity to achieve even difficult goals stemming from a belief in own knowledge, skills and abilities.
DOMINANCE: tendency to exercise power over others, to take initiative and to control over activities.
EAGERNESS TO LEARN: thirst for knowledge and striving to learn new things, even in the absence of external reward.
ENGAGEMENT: capacity to maintain a high level of activity, usually work related, for long periods with little rest.
FEARLESSNESS: degree of absence of a fear of failing at difficult tasks.
FLEXIBILITY: willingness to accept changes and enjoyment of challenging new tasks.
FLOW: capacity to maintain long periods of concentration without being distracted; likelihood of becoming lost to the outside world and absorbed in a task.
GOAL SETTING: tendency to set goals and make long term plans for achieving these.
INDEPENDENCE: preference for making own decisions andworking at own pace and tendency to take responsibility for one's own actions.
INTERNALITY: attribution of own success to own actions and efforts rather than to situational variables or luck.
PERSISTENCE: Tenacity and energy given to task completion.
PREFERENCE FOR DIFFICULT TASKS: tendency to seek out challenging rather than easy tasks and desire to seek greater challenges once earlier ones have been met.
PRIDE IN PRODUCTIVITY: enjoyment and satisfaction derived from achievement, from doing one's best and from improving on performance.
SELF-CONTROL: capacity to delay gratification and to organise oneself and one's work.
STATUS ORIENTATION: desire to gain high status in one's personal life and to progress professionally. | http://www.testagency.com/viewpage.asp?id=75 |
| Leistungmotivationsinventar LMI (Schuler & Prochaska, 2001) | 170 items in total, short version with 30 items available. Same scales as above, in German language. | http://www.testzentrale.de/?mod=detail&id=661 |
| Beruflicher Motivationstest BMT (S&F Personalpsychologie, o.J.) | 51 items in total, short version with 12 items available. Test is available in German, Englisch (us and uk), Russian, French, Italian and Polish. | http://www.HR-diagnostics.com |
Tests for application within Sports
Test | Description | Link |
Sportbezogener Leistungsmotivationstest SMT (Frintrup & Schuler, 2007) | A 17-scale test with 98 items measuring achievement motivation in Sports. Available in German language only. | http://www.testzentrale.de/?mod=detail&id=1293 |
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