Achievement Motive: A Faceted Definition And Structural Analysis

Facet technique is used to analyze contents of achievement motive questionnaire items proposed in recent years and to construct an explicit definition for achievement motive. The theoretical discussion provides the rationale for an hypothesis concerning the structure (i.e. classifications, ordering, dimensionality) of interrelationships among components of achievement motive. Using data from a sample of executive managers, the hypothesis is then tested by means of Guttman's Smallest Space Analysis and found to be correct.