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Impression management and achievement motivation: Investigating substantive links

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: In this research, we investigate impression management (IM) as a substantive personality variable by linking it to differentiated achievement motivation constructs, namely achievement motives (workmastery, competitiveness, fear of failure) and achievement goals (mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, performance-avoidance). Study 1 revealed that IM was a positive predictor of workmastery and a negative predictor of competitiveness (with and without self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) controlled). Studies 2a and 2b revealed that IM was a positive predictor of mastery-approach goals and mastery-avoidance goals (without and, in Study 2b, with SDE controlled). These findings highlight the value of conceptualising and utilising IM as a personality variable in its own right and shed light on the nature of the achievement motive and achievement goal constructs.

Source: International Journal of Psychology

DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12252

Authors: Andrew J. Elliot, Nawal Aldhobaiban, Kou Murayama, Ahmed Kobeisy, Małgorzata A. Gocłowska, Aber Khyat

Institutions: King Abdulaziz University, University of Rochester, University of Reading, University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Department of Sport and Recreation, Government of Western Australia, King Abdulaziz University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Awards: G3234661086, G5153813836