Assessing individual differences in achievement motivation with the Implicit Association Test |
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Authors: | Joachim C. Brunstein Clemens H. Schmitt |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany |
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Abstract: | The authors examined the validity of an Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) for assessing individual differences in achievement tendencies. Eighty-eight students completed an IAT and explicit self-ratings of achievement orientation, and were then administered a mental concentration test that they performed either in the presence or in the absence of achievement-related feedback. Implicit and explicit measures of achievement orientation were uncorrelated. Under feedback, the IAT uniquely predicted students’ test performance but failed to predict their self-reported task enjoyment. Conversely, explicit self-ratings were unrelated to test performance but uniquely related to subjective accounts of task enjoyment. Without feedback, individual differences in both performance and enjoyment were independent of differences in either of the two achievement orientation measures. |
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Keywords: | Achievement motivation Implicit Association Test Implicit and explicit motives |
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