title: Attitudes related to work of adolescents in the United Kingdom and Japan.
abstract: This study was designed to provide data for notions that differences in achievement motivation in different nations may contribute to differences in national rates of economic growth. The nations investigated were the United Kingdom and Japan as representatives of low and high rates of economic growth in the decades after the end of World War II. Data were collected from college students for motivations and attitudes related to work. British students had higher achievement motivation, while Japanese students had higher competitiveness motivation and strong money beliefs. Differences in career preference between the nations were also presented. The relationship between motivations and attitudes to work with career preference were examined for each nation.
authors.affiliation: University of Ulster Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lynn
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tachibana
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002321:Career Choice; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010553:Personality Development; D006113:United Kingdom