Person's Achievement Motive
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A Person's Achievement Motive is a secondary personal motive that drives excellence pursuit through both achievement needs and failure avoidance for performance mastery.
- AKA: Achievement Drive, Success Motivation, Performance Motive, Need for Achievement.
- Context:
- It can typically direct Person's Effort through goal pursuit and feedback response.
- It can typically enhance Person's Performance through competency development and calculated risk-taking.
- It can typically shape Person's Standard through excellence pursuit and challenge selection.
- It can typically strengthen Person's Persistence through challenge engagement and gratification delay.
- It can typically guide Person's Focus through priority alignment and concrete feedback.
- It can typically manifest Person's Dual Nature through person's achievement need and person's failure fear.
- It can typically activate Person's Brain Regions through implicit emotion processing and explicit cognitive control.
- It can typically drive Person's Task Selection toward moderate difficulty levels and measurable outcomes.
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- It can often improve Person's Skill through deliberate practice and performance measurement.
- It can often increase Person's Competence through systematic learning and constructive criticism.
- It can often develop Person's Capability through continuous improvement and problem-solving.
- It can often expand Person's Knowledge through active exploration and skill mastery.
- It can often boost Person's Confidence through success experience and failure management.
- It can often enhance Person's Professional Development through feedback utilization and goal achievement.
- It can often strengthen Person's Problem-Solving Capability through challenge engagement and solution focus.
- It can often shape Person's Career Trajectory through measurable success roles and achievement orientation.
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- It can range from being a Person's Implicit Achievement Motive to being a Person's Explicit Achievement Motive, depending on its cognitive processing.
- It can range from being a Person's Individual Achievement Motive to being a Person's Collective Achievement Motive, depending on its scope orientation.
- It can range from being a Person's Task Achievement Motive to being a Person's Domain Achievement Motive, depending on its focus breadth.
- It can range from being a Person's Weak Achievement Motive to being a Person's Strong Achievement Motive, depending on its motivational intensity.
- It can range from being a Person's Intrinsic Achievement Motive to being a Person's Extrinsic Achievement Motive, depending on its reward source.
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- It can integrate with Person's Growth Mindset for development acceleration.
- It can connect with Person's Self-Efficacy for confidence building.
- It can align with Person's Goal System for achievement direction.
- It can work with Person's Feedback Process for performance improvement.
- It can balance with Person's Power Motive and Person's Affiliation Motive for holistic motivation.
- It can interact with Person's McClelland Motivational Profile for behavioral prediction.
- It can influence Person's Risk-Taking Pattern for calculated decision-making.
- It can shape Person's Success Perception for pride experience and shame avoidance.
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- Examples:
- Person's Performance Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Skill Mastery Motives, such as:
- Person's Competitive Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Workplace Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Professional Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Career Development Motives, such as:
- Person's Development Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Learning Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Personal Growth Motives, such as:
- Person's Impact Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Social Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Organizational Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Domain-Specific Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Entrepreneurial Achievement Motives, such as:
- Person's Creative Achievement Motives, such as:
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- Person's Performance Achievement Motives, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Person's Comfort Motives, which seek stability maintenance rather than achievement pursuit.
- Person's Social Affiliation Motives, which focus on relationship building rather than performance improvement.
- Person's Security Motives, which prioritize safety assurance over achievement striving.
- Person's Avoidance Motives, which aim to prevent failure rather than achieve success.
- Person's Power Motives, which emphasize control desire over excellence pursuit.
- See: Achievement Motivation, Goal Setting, Performance Drive, Success Orientation, Mastery Pursuit, Competence Development, Excellence Standard, McClelland Achievement Theory, Person's Motive, Person's Secondary Motive, Psychological Drive.
References
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2025-01-02
- Perplexity.ai
- Question: What is achievement motivation? Explain its key characteristics, psychological framework, and workplace impact. Include information about McClelland's Theory and how it relates to other motivational needs.
- Answer: Achievement motivation is a fundamental drive that pushes individuals to master challenges and reach high standards of excellence. It represents a person's desire for significant accomplishment, mastery of skills, and the pursuit of challenging but attainable goals.
- Key Characteristics:
- Personality Traits:
- Persistence in working toward goals.
- Ability to delay gratification.
- Competitiveness in chosen pursuits.
- Behavioral Patterns:
- Seek moderately difficult tasks.
- Desire concrete feedback on their performance.
- Take calculated risks.
- Work diligently toward specific goals.
- Personality Traits:
- Psychological Framework:
- Dual Nature of Achievement Motivation:
- Need for achievement: drives individuals to experience pride upon success.
- Fear of failure: creates tendency to experience shame upon failure.
- Brain Activity:
- Implicit motivation activates areas associated with emotion and visual processing.
- Explicit motivation engages regions linked to cognitive self-control and verbal goal processing.
- Dual Nature of Achievement Motivation:
- Workplace Impact:
- Professional Characteristics:
- Thrive on feedback and constructive criticism.
- Set challenging but realistic goals.
- Focus on personal improvement.
- Prefer roles where success can be measured.
- Demonstrate high problem-solving capabilities.
- Professional Characteristics:
- McClelland's Theory:
- Achievement motivation exists alongside two other primary motivational needs:
- Power: the desire for influence and control.
- Affiliation: the need for relationships and belonging.
- Achievement motivation exists alongside two other primary motivational needs:
- Key Characteristics:
- Citations:
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