The purpose of the present study is to examine the concept of achievement motive among Japanese college students. The subjects were one hundred and seventy-four college students. Each was asked to think of two persons, whom they knew well, as targets. One to be judged as highly achievement motivated and the other to be judged as barely motivated. They were then asked to rate each of the two targets on 40 behavior characteristics. The data were analyzed using factor analysis. For the male targets, the following five factors were found: Factor I: challenge seeking, Factor II: autonomy and creativeness, Factor III: cooperativeness and social responsibility, Factor IV: openness, and Factor V: reflective attitude. For the female targets, the four factors found were almost the same as those of the male targets, except that social responsibility was combined with challenge seeking as Factor I. Among Japanese college students, social abilities, such as cooperativeness and social responsibility, tend to go along with achievement motive. Also suggested is that this tendency was more pronounced among females.

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