Achievement motivation inventory

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The LMI achievement motivation inventory (Schuler and Prochaska with the cooperation of Frintrup) is a business psychological test procedure for measuring achievement motivation . The main area of ​​application is personnel selection and personnel development. With 170 items, the procedure measures 17 facets of job-related motivation and is suitable for use from the age of 16. The processing time is approx. 35 minutes.

description

The achievement motivation inventory integrates the most important dimensions of various achievement motivation theories. Only all aspects relevant to professional success were taken into account. The theoretical background is the understanding of achievement motivation as the alignment of further parts of the personality to the achievement issue (cf. Schuler and Prochaska). The LMI accordingly contains a number of success-relevant dimensions in the professional context that are conventionally not assigned to achievement motivation. Old schools of motivation research (e.g. Atkinson or McClelland and Heckhausen) always postulated a separation of the motive for power and achievement. The LMI abandons this separation on the basis of analytical research and integrates both classic achievement motives (according to Henry Murray, “After” for “Need for Achievement”) and social (power) motives in the theoretical framework of achievement motivation. The international research accompanying the test has therefore made a lasting contribution to a broader understanding of the psychological construct of achievement motivation (for research results see below).

The test differentiates between 17 dimensions or “performance orientations”, each of which is measured with ten items. The items are largely formulated job-related. The evaluation takes place on a dimension-specific basis or as a total value. The results are presented in profile form. In addition to the complete test form, a short version with 30 items is available to quickly determine an overall value; however, this short version does not allow a differentiated evaluation.

In addition to the original German version, the procedure is also available in Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, English (US), Hebrew, French, Italian, Korean and Romanian. In particular, based on the US version with the title Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI) (H. Schuler, GC Thornton, A. Frintrup, R. Mueller-Hanson) there is a broad research base.

The authors have also developed a sport-specific variant of this test (sport-related motivation test SMT, published in 2007 by Hogrefe), whose use specifically relates to the selection and advice of top athletes. Olofsson, Frintrup and Schuler report on the results of a validation of the SMT.

Measuring ranges

  • persistence
  • Dominance
  • engagement
  • Confidence in success
  • flexibility
  • Flow
  • fearlessness
  • Internality
  • Compensatory effort
  • Achievement pride
  • Willingness to learn
  • Difficulty preference
  • independence
  • Self control
  • Status orientation
  • Competitive orientation
  • Goal setting

Homogeneity and consistency

  • Internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) α = .68 to α = .86 for the dimension values; α = .89 for the total
  • Retest reliability between rtt = .66 and rtt = .82 for the dimension values; for the overall test at rtt = .86

Research work

Most publications relate to research in the Anglo-American language area.

  • RA Mueller-Hanson, GC Thornton: Achievement motivation and the Five Factor Model of personality . Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. New Orleans, 2000.
  • ZS Byrne, RA Mueller-Hanson, JM Cardador, GC Thornton, H. Schuler, A. Frintrup, A., S. Fox: Measuring achievement motivation: Tests of equivalency for English, German, and Israeli versions of the Achievement Motivation Inventory, Personality and Individual Differences . 37, 2004, pp. 203-217.
  • K. Cigularov, GC Thornton: An integration of two complex concepts of achievement motivation . 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, Texas, 2006.
  • K. Cigularov, GC Thornton, G. Rafailova, PK Tsigularov: Challenges in translating and adapting English language personality measures in Bulgarian: A two case study demonstration . 10th European Congress of Psychology. Prague 2007.
  • K. Cigularov, M. Lanik, GC Thornton, R. Singh: Testing observed and latent mean differences of facets of achievement motivation between college students from the United States and Singapore . 10th European Congress of Psychology. Prague 2007.
  • Lanik, Martin; Thornton III, George C .; Hoskovcová, Simona. A Flat World? A Comparative Study of Achievement Motivation in the Czech Republic and the United States. Studia Psychologica. 2009, 51, No. 1, p. 69-84.0039-3320 IF 2009:
  • SE Woo, AM Gibbons, GC Thornton, MJ Kim: Measuring achievement motivation of United States and Korean employees with the Achievement Motivation Inventory . Annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, 2007.

literature

Methodological and construct-related background
  • H. Schuler. Assessment and promotion of professional achievement . Verlag für Angewandte Psychologie, Göttingen 1991.
  • M. Prochaska: Achievement Motivation - Methods, Social Desirability and the Construct . Lang, Frankfurt 1998.
  • H. Schuler, M. Prochaska: Development and construct validation of a job-related achievement motivation test . In: Diagnostica . 46, 2, 2000, pp. 61-72.
  • A. Olofsson, A. Frintrup and H. Schuler: Construct and Criteria Validation of the Sport-Related Achievement Motivation Test SMT . In: Journal of Sport Psychology . 15, 2, pp. 33-44.
Test publication
  • H. Schuler, M. Prochaska: Achievement Motivation Inventory . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2001.
  • H. Schuler, GC Thornton, A. Frintrup, R. Mueller-Hanson: Achievement Motivation Inventory . Hans Huber Publishers, Göttingen, Bern, New York 2002.
  • A. Frintrup, H. Schuler: Sport-related achievement motivation test . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007.
  • S. Hoskovcová: Dotazník motivace k výkonu - LMI. 2nd edition Praha: Hogrefe Testcentrum
Scientific test reviews
  • L. Schmidt-Atzert: Review of the “achievement motivation inventory ” by H. Schuler and M. Prochaska (instruments of work and organizational psychology) . In: Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology . 45, 2001.
  • M. Bühner: Achievement Motivation Inventory (LMI) (tests and tools) . In: Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie . 1 (4), 2002, pp. 206-211.
  • F. Niemann: Achievement Motivation Inventory . In: UP Kanning, H. Holling (Ed.): Handbook of personal diagnostic instruments . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2002, pp. 373–379.
  • R. Hossiep , O. Mühlhaus: Personnel selection and development with personality tests . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2005, pp. 60–65.
  • U. Kieschke: Achievement motivation inventory . In: E. Fay (Ed.): Tests under the magnifying glass. 5. Current psychological test procedures - viewed critically . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 52–65.
Popular science presentations
  • H. Schuler, A. Frintrup: The will counts: motivation to achieve . In: Personal . 54, 1, 2002, pp. 750-753.
  • H. Schuler, A. Frintrup: The achievement motivation inventory . In: Business Psychology . 2, 2002, pp. 78-82.

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