title: Relationships between implicit motives, self-attributed motives, and personal goal commitments.
abstract: This research examined the relationships between measures of the implicit and the explicit motivational systems. We analyzed the relationships between picture-story measures of implicit motives, questionnaire measures of self-attributed motives, and ideographically assessed personal goal commitments within the domains achievement, affiliation, and power through a reanalysis of three data sets from the USA and Germany (total N = 309). No significant positive within-domain correlations of implicit motives with self-attributed motives or personal goal commitments were found, and self-attributed motives correlated substantially and positively with personal goals. Results did not systematically differ between data sets.
authors.affiliation: Chair of Psychology, TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Maika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rawolle
authors.affiliation: Chair for Experimental Psychology, Motivation, and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schultheiss
authors.affiliation: Chair for Experimental Psychology, Motivation, and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Oliver C
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Schultheiss
keywords: culture; implicit motives; personal goals; picture story exercise; relationships; self-attributed motives