Stability and Interrelations of Thematic Test Imagery over 20 Years

Skolnick, Arlene

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“…For the 66 subjects having motive scores at both points, the stability of n Power was r (64) = .24, p < .05. This is lower than the stability typically reported for motive measures (although it is consistent with that noted by Skolnick, 1966, for women's n Power over 20 years using different picture cues at the two administrations). The stability of n Power over time for the untransformed scores was higher, in part because of the disproportionate influence of two subjects whose scores were high outliers at both time points.…”

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Need for power and women's careers over 14 years: Structural power, job satisfaction, and motive change.

Jenkins¹

1994

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Previous findings by D. G. Winter (1988) relating the need for Power to choice and attainment of power-relevant careers (teaching, including college; psychotherapy; journalism; and business management) were successfully replicated among 118 female college seniors, 69 of whom returned mailed questionnaires 14 years later. High n Power women reported both more power-relevant job satisfaction and dissatisfaction; n Power predicted career progression only for women in power-relevant careers. Those women holding relational power jobs and those in structural power roles who reported higher overall job satisfaction increased in n Power over 14 years. Power-motivated women in different structural power roles reported contrasting satisfactions and career progression.

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Need for power and women's careers over 14 years: Structural power, job satisfaction, and motive change.

Jenkins¹

1994

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…The n Ach scores increased significantly from a mean of 3.7 in 1967 to 6.2 in 1981 ( SD s = 4.3 and 4.2, respectively), correlated t (61) = −3.57, p < .001. The longitudinal Pearson product-moment autocorrelation, r (60) = .16, is low, especially compared with Skolnick's (1966) correlation of .24 over 20 years using different picture cues at the two administrations. This apparent temporal instability of n Ach is probably due to interindividual differences in family cycle stage and home versus work involvement (Baruch, 1967) and to effects of work situation on n Ach as discussed here.…”

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Need for achievement and women's careers over 14 years: Evidence for occupational structure effects.

Jenkins¹

1987

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Previous research has demonstrated that achievement-motivated people perform better under working conditions of challenge, autonomy, and rapid feedback. These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching. Achievement motivation was measured in 117 women as college seniors and again 14 years later. Senior-year achievement motivation predicted later employment in teaching (including college). Career-involved women who had been highly achievement-motivated in college valued status mobility and working with people and reported job satisfaction from competition with a standard of excellence; however, women in different career situations differed in the relations between their achievement motivation in college and their later work values, job perceptions, and sources of satisfaction. Women highly achievement-motivated in adulthood valued achievement-congenial working conditions and status mobility and described job satisfaction from competition with a standard of excellence, especially if they were supervisors. Professors and businesswomen showed larger increases in achievement motivation over 14 years than did women otherwise employed. Thus, achievement motivation predicts women's career outcomes when their values and work situations, along with sex-differentiated occupational structures, are considered. Occupational structure effects on motives over time are discussed.

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“…Table 1 presents the relations among the four kinds of imagery at the two periods: these findings, plus results pertaining to the stability of TAT imagery, are discussed more fully elsewhere (Skolnick, 1966).…”

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“…Again, "power" seems to have a different meaning in men and women. Power is, of course, particularly salient for the masculine sex role, and tends to be relatively stable in males over time (Kagan & Moss, 1962;Skolnick, 1966). Veroff et al (1960) found men in the highest and lowest status groups (managers and blue-collar workers) to be higher in power imagery than professionals and white-collar workers, possibly reflecting the greater "masculinity" of industrial boss and worker roles.…”

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Motivational imagery and behavior over twenty years.

Skolnick¹

1966

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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Adolescent and adult TAT protocols of 91 longitudinal Ss, 44 men and 47 women, were scored for imagery relating to achievement, affiliation, power, and aggression. These scores were then correlated with behavioral measures made at corresponding times. The results suggest it is not possible to make a statement about the relation between TAT fantasy and behavior that will hold for all motives, ages, and both sexes, although the predominant effect seems to be direct rather than inverse. Results were clearest for achievement and power. Measures of aggression-inhibition correlated directly with measures of overt aggression.

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Stability and Interrelations of Thematic Test Imagery over 20 Years

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Need for power and women's careers over 14 years: Structural power, job satisfaction, and motive change.

Need for power and women's careers over 14 years: Structural power, job satisfaction, and motive change.

Need for achievement and women's careers over 14 years: Evidence for occupational structure effects.

Motivational imagery and behavior over twenty years.

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