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Peer reviewedSingh, Satvir – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1979
The ways in which projective and nonprojective verbal measures of achievement motivation elicit comparable and dissimilar responses in a "Third World" sample of entrepreneurs and farmers were explored as a test of McClelland's theory of economic growth. Results were generally consistent with the theory of achievement motivation.…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Business, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations
Gitau, Ben K. – International Council for Distance Education Bulletin, 1987
Discusses achievement motivation among distance education students, and describes a study of Kenyan primary school teachers enrolled in an in-service training course taught primarily through correspondence. A modified Thematic Apperception Test will be used to determine the correlation between achievement motive and performance score in written…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Correlation, Developing Nations, Distance Education
