Questionnaire for the analysis of motivational schemes

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The Questionnaire for the Analysis of Motivational Schemas ( FAMOS ) is a psychological test to determine therapy goals. It records 14 approach goals and 9 avoidance goals (see also positive formulation of therapy goals). It enables the measurement of changes in avoidance and approach goals in the context of psychotherapy . It is recommended, for example, together with the incongruence questionnaire (INK) to clarify the motivation for therapy in eating disorder patients. Martin Grosse Holtforth and Klaus Grawe were able to show that older psychotherapy patients differ from younger ones in terms of their approach and avoidance goals.

The questionnaire consists of 94 questions. It records the following approach and avoidance goals:

Approach goals:

  • Intimacy / attachment
  • Socializing
  • Help others
  • get help
  • Recognition / appreciation
  • Be superior / impress
  • autonomy
  • power
  • Have control
  • Education / understanding
  • Belief / meaning
  • Enjoy life
  • Self-confidence / self-worth
  • Self-reward

Avoidance goals:

  • Alone / Separation
  • Contempt
  • Humiliation / embarrassment
  • Allegations / criticism
  • Dependency / loss of autonomy
  • Tensions with others
  • Make yourself vulnerable
  • Helplessness / powerlessness
  • to fail

Construct against the background of consistency theory

The questionnaire was developed by Martin Grosse Holtforth as part of his dissertation at the Psychological Institute of the University of Bern together with Klaus Grawe. The manual itself is a shortened, revised and expanded version of the dissertation. The test construction is based on the consistency theory of Klaus Grawe from 1998. Motivational goals are understood as a subset of the general concept of goals. To explain the difference, Grosse Holtforth refers to a work by Austin and Vancouver from 1996 and differentiates between the three perspectives, whereby the goals differ: structure, process and content.

Structure: goals are organized hierarchically. This means that there are overarching goals (terminal goals) that no longer serve higher goals. The sub-goals (instrumental goals) serve the overall goals. This would include further sub-goals, “down to muscle tension”. Colloquially, one could also speak of means and ends instead of sub-goals and overarching goals. There is equifinality in the hierarchy, which means that different sub-goals can serve the same overall goal. There is also multipotentiality, which means that a sub-goal can serve several overall goals. Compare to: Plan analysis .

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b Klaus Grawe: Neuropsychotherapy . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-8017-1804-2 , p. 280 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Johann Lehrner, Karin Stolba, Gabriele Traun-Vogt, Sabine Völkl-Kernstock: Clinical Psychology in the Hospital . Springer, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7091-0656-3 , pp. 270 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Andreas Maercker: Fundamentals and theoretical models . In: Andreas Maercker (Ed.): Age psychotherapy and clinical gerontopsychology . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-642-54723-2 , pp. 34 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-54723-2 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Martin Grosse Holtforth, Klaus Grawe: FAMOS. Questionnaire for the analysis of motivational schemes. Manual . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2002.