MOTIVATIONAL TYPES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

College students were related to one another over a variety of measures associated with motivation to study in college. The inverse factor analysis of these relahionships revealed ten motivational types. Data for 12 hypothetical students, entering the analysis as an extension matrix, helped to interpret the types found among the real studenb. In a table of results, the average value on each measure for students of each type k compared with the average value for students who were found to be the opposites of each type. Consistencies among the measures of each type make good psychological sense. In addition, the actual studenb, all known personally to the author, seemed adequately to belong to the types into which the analysis placed them.