Kommentare zu Okulicz-Kozaryn, M., Schmidt, A. F. & Banse, R. (2019) : Worin besteht die Expertise von forensischen Sachverständigen, und ist die App…

2019

Investigating Measures of Achievement Motivation(s)

2010

After a long debate there is now growing agreement that implicit and explicit achievement motivation can be seen as distinct constructs. One of their major differences lies in their predictive validity, which supposedly differs depending on the setting. Empirical evidence exists to the effect that different explicit measures based on different theoretical concepts build one construct. For implicit measures, however, such evidence is lacking. Thus, scores on three implicit and three explicit achievement motivation measures, an intelligence test, and a Big 5 questionnaire were obtained (N = 150) as well as two criteria. The explicit achievement motivation measures were classified as being ba…