The Anatomy of Achievement Motivation

Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter I. Introduction Text Chapter II. Content Analysis I. Early Research II. Theory of the Thematic Apperception Method III. Experimental Method IV. Validation V. Reliability Chapter III. Evaluative Dispositions (Value Attitudes) I. Indicators II. Area of Generalization III. Sociocultural Frames of References and Their Change Over Historical Time IV. Value Systems and Subsystems Chapter IV. Important Dimensions of Experience I. Focus of the Person-Environment Relationship II. Time Perspective and the Nature of the Experience of Time III. Levels of Reality Chapter V. Conflict I. Expectation of Failure II. Risk-Taking III. Resolution of Conflict after Failure IV. Conflicts with Other Motives Chapter VI. The General Structure of Goals and Performance Text Chapter VII. Foreperiod: Valence and Motive Arousal I. Discrepancy between a Present and a Future State II. Psychic Distance between a Present and a Future State Chapter VII. Goal Setting and Level of Aspiration I. Definitions II. Results and Theoretical Review III. Relationship of Goal Setting to Motivation Chapter IX. The Performance Period I. Activation II. Feedback about Success and Failure III. Endurance and Persistence Chapter X . The Postperformance Period I. Release from the Task II. Zeigarnik Effect III. Retrospective Judgment of Success Chapter XI. Accomplishments I. Motivation and Intelligence II. Achievement in School and College III. Other Types of Accomplishment Chapter XII. Origin and Development of Achievement Motivation I. Precursors and First Appearance II. General Course of Development III. Individual Differences: Parental Influences IV. Effects of Family Structure V. Effects of the Sociocultural Milieu VI. Changes in Adulthood Chapter XIII. Concluding Remarks Text References Author Index Subject Index