Affiliative achievement motivation and non-affiliative achievement motivation of female students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the two dimensional theory of achievement motivation (Doi, 1932) in female students. Doi's motivation scale were administered to 81 female university students, 58 female students of school of nursing and 77 female students of school of English Language, and the Yatabe-Guilford personality inventory was also administered to the first and the second groups. Affiliative achievement motivation and non-affiliative achievement motivation were extracted by principal component analyses and canonical correlation analyses. Non-affiliative achievement motivation was found to be related to personality type: emotional instability and introversion. These findings differ from achievement motivation concepts (Murray, 1938; McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953), that include emotional stability and extraversion. © 1988, The Japanese Psychological Association. All rights reserved.