Personal Need for Structure and Control Motivation: Linking Social Cognition and Interpersonal Motivation
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The authors examined the assumption that Personal need for structure (PNS) is negatively related to the approach component of control motivation and positively related to the avoidance component of control motivation.Participants (n = 60 university students) were administered self-report Personal Need for Structure scale and semi-projective Multi-Motive Grid.Analysis showed that PNS was positively related to Fear of Losing Control.No relation between PNS and Hope for Control was found.Results are interpreted in the context of dispositional and situational conditions influencing control motivation.Key words: personal need for structure, control motivation, hope for control, fear of losing control This paper was supported by a grant APVV-0540-12 Psychometric quality of psychodiagnostic measures in career counseling.
Source: Studia Psychologica
Authors: Tomáš SOLLÁR, Jana TURZÁKOVÁ
Institution: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W750587372