Sex differences in college students in achievement motivation and performance in competitive and noncompetitive situations. 1965.

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Sex differences in college students in achievement motivation and performance in competitive and noncompetitive situations. 1965.

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This study was conducted to determine if the motive to avoid success was one factor responsible for the unresolved sex differences in previous research on achievement motivation. The sample consisted of 90 women and 88 men who were students in an introductory psychology course (largely freshmen) at the University of Michigan in the winter of 1965. In two evening group sessions participants were administered six verbal projective cues, the Alpert-Haber(1960) Achievement Anxiety Test, and three timed tests entitled "Ability Indices." The latter included one-half of the Lowell (1952) Scrambled Words Test, a series of solvable and nonsolvable line puzzles, and an arithmetic puzzle. In the second test period, participants were randomly assigned to one of three performance conditions: noncompetitive (NC), mixed sex competitive (MF and FM), or same sex competitive (MM and FF). The instruments administered during the second testing session included a level of aspiration or risk preference task, three performance measures, and a personal questionnaire. All existing raw data and computer-accessible data are available. Data are also available from two follow-ups, conducted in 1974 and 1980 (see Hoffman, A014; and Foltz, A615).

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