Culture and Achievement Motivation.

Maehr, Martin L.

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Publication Date: 1974

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Culture and Achievement Motivation

Maehr, Martin L.

American Psychologist, 29, 12, 887-896, Dec 74

A framework is suggested for the cross-cultural study of motivation that stresses the importance of contextual conditions in eliciting achievement motivation and emphasizes cultural relativity in the definition of the concept. (EH)

Descriptors: Achievement Need, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Learning Motivation, Locus of Control, Motivation, Social Environment, Social Reinforcement

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