Compared female business owners, managers, and secretaries to examine predictors of occupational choice, satisfaction, and success in the self-employment of women. Results showed owners rated higher than secretaries in achievement motivation, locus of control, and sex role, while owners and managers were similar except in parental models. (JAC)

Examined environmental and psychological predictors of career and achievement motivation in 162 married female reentry college students. Findings suggested that feminine sex-typed women may be highly achieving given adequate support, while androgynous women may succeed in a different environment. Fear of success was highest in highly motivated…

The author notes that women do not contribute to society through their work proportionally to their participation. This is seen as resulting from inhibited achievement motivation in women. The author provides a selective review of the literature to obtain insights into factors inhibiting achievement motivation, and possible remedies. (NG)

What strategies can improve test scores? According to research done by Amrein and Berliner, who studied 18 states with high stakes testing, their conclusion was that students did not necessarily score higher and often remained at the same level prior to the introduction of the high stakes testing. In other research done by Carnoy and Loeb, their…

When the fear of failure was greater than the need for achievement, subjects chose majors with either a low or high probability of success. When need for achievement was the greater of the motives, subjects chose majors with a low or high probability of success when the self was used as the standard of judgment but chose majors with an…

Data confirmed Kukla's attributional theory of performance. When a task is perceived to be difficult, high resultant achievers perform better than low resultant achievers, whereas the low motive group proves to be superior to the high group when the task is perceived as easy. (Author/RK)

The major hypothesis of the present study was that individuals with high need for achievement and high intellectual achievement responsibility would be more attracted to the opportunities provided by B.Ed. as opposed to certificate course in colleges of education. (Authors)

Research findings in child development are reviewed to shed light on female achievement motives, with the suggestion that females have high needs for affiliation which influence their achievement motives and behavior, sometimes enhancing and sometimes blocking them. (Author/JM)

Fifty male students from India and 50 male American College students were asked to write essays in which events in the future could be discussed. Results indicated that Americans are more future oriented and that Indians are more past oriented. Americans indicated more concern with personal efforts in their work thus revealing a differential in…

A study of the value orientations of Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Indians living on a reservation in Northeastern Wyoming, focusing on the disparate reference group functions of the adjacent white community. (JM)

Hypothesized that women who were more profeminist in their attitudes toward women's roles would score significantly higher on a measure of identity achievement than women whose attitudes were more traditional. Measures were administered to a random sample of 300 female college students. Results strongly supported the hypothesis. (Author)