David C Mcclelland
Biographic Data
| ID | 110722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Mcclelland |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclelland |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLELLAND D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2244-5935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 437 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Achievement Motive in Economic Growth
In Chapter 5, Aujac argued that certain cultures favor economic growth. David C. McClellanda psychologist; expands upon ideas developed by Max Weber, who examined the relationship between the Protestant ethic and the rise of capitalism. McClelland posits a more generalized psychological attribute he calls the “need for Achievement” or n Achievement. In this discussion, which is a summary of a book on the subject, McClelland presents some very int…
Does the Field of Personality Have a Future
The knowledge-testing-educational complex strikes back
Motivation and Personality
Lives of women and men active in the social protests of the 1960s
This study found that 46 of 116 children from the R. R. Sears, E. E. Maccoby, and H. Levin (1957) child-rearing study classified at age 31 as participants in the protest movements of the 1960s came more often from middle-class families and attained higher educational levels than their counterparts who did not participate in the protests. In midlife, activists remained more rebellious and altruistic than their peers of equivalent education. Sixtie…
Motivational and Other Sources of Work Accomplishments in Mid–Life
Earned Income and work accomplishment were determined at age 41 for 89 adults whose mothers had been interviewed for their child‐rearing practices when the adults were 5 years old. At age 31, in spontaneous thought but not self‐report, n Achievement predicted earned income and socialized power motivation predicted work accomplishment at age 41. Hardships (or “bad breaks”) during childhood and adolescence predicted work outcomes for both men and w…
Task‐Intrinsic and Social‐Extrinsic Sources of Arousal for Motives Assessed in Fantasy and Self‐Report
A review of the literature on individual differences in motive dispositions points toward the importance of distinguishing between motives as assessed in fantasy and self‐report. We proposed that these two modes of assessment have identified independent motivational systems that influence behavior in different ways. Two experiments were designed to show that the two kinds of motives are unrelated to one another and are aroused by different factor…
The Role of Affiliative Loss in the Recruitment of Helper Cells among Insulin-Dependent Diabetics
The study was undertaken to determine whether affiliative loss might play a role in the development of insulin-dependent diabetes by increasing the percentage of helper-inducer T cells when diabetics were reminded of the loss. It was found that diabetics who had experienced the recent death of a loved one showed a marked increase in helper cells, in contrast to diabetics who had not experienced a recent death, after both groups viewed a film abou…
Childhood antecedents of conventional social accomplishment in midlife adults
A Study of the Effectiveness of Two Group Behavioral Medicine Interventions for Patients with Psychosomatic Complaints
This randomized, prospective study investigated the effectiveness of two group behavioral medicine interventions for primary care patients experiencing physical symptoms with a psychosocial component (eg, palpitations, gastrointestinal disturbances, headaches, malaise, sleep disorders). The subjects were 80 volunteers at a health maintenance organization (HMO) in the greater Boston area. Both interventions focused on the mind/body relationship an…
How do self-attributed and implicit motives differ?
From the beginning of the work on the achievement motive (McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953), it has been apparent that motive dispositions as coded in imaginative thought from stories written to pictures differ from motive dispositions with the same name as measured in self-reported desires or interests. The authors of the studies on achievement motivation wanted to demonstrate that the variable they had identified in fantasy functione…
Motivational factors in health and disease
Motivational factors in health and disease
Evidence is reviewed that measures of motive strength, as measured through content analysis of associative thought, are related to physiological systems, the functioning of which affect health outcomes. Studies show that affiliative and power motive syndromes assessed in associative thought are associated with health and illness. A relaxed or easygoing affiliative motive syndrome characterizes insulin dependent Type I diabetics and can, if arouse…
Some reflections on the two psychologies of love
The mainstream view of love is that it is a state that arises from people mutually reinforcing each other or providing benefits to each other Yet careful quantitative analyses of imaginative thought patterns of people in love or in a state of affiliative arousal reveal themes of dialogue, commitment, and harmony rather than of mutual benefits It is suggested that asking people about love leads them to give causal explanations for the state which …
How motives, skills, and values determine what people do
According to general behavior theory, motives, probability of success (or skill), and incentive value are three independent organismic determinants of excitatory potential (or the impulse to act) that combine with situational opportunity to determine response strength or response probability. Much con- fusion has been introduced into human motivation theory by investigators 'failure to measure separately motive strength (from coding operant thoug…
The Social Mandate of Health Psychology
A New Case for the Liberal Arts
Sources of adult motives in patterns of parent behavior in early childhood
Leadership motive pattern and long-term success in management.
Managing motivation to expand human freedom
Managing motivation to expand human freedom
Motivation and Maturity Patterns in Marital Success
Married couples rated their marital satisfaction and played an interpersonal competitive game which revealed the success with which they interacted. Younger husbands who score more mature on the Stewart measure of psychosocial maturity tend to belong to more successful marriages, as judged by both criteria, as do college educated wives who show less immaturity and more phallic adventurousness
Husband's motives and wife's career level
Die Leistungsgesellschaft
How motives, skills, and values determine what people do
"Testing for competence rather than for "intelligence
À medida que se considera o profissional do Secretariado Executivo como atuante junto às posições de liderança, pressupõe-se que haja correlação entre as competências desse profissional e aquelas do middle manager.Realizou-se, então, esta pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa e descritiva, na qual se procurou analisar a possível natureza de tal correlação.Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, baseada em livros, artigos, leis e outros documentos que…
The achievement motive.
Toward a theory of motive acquisition
N achievement and entrepreneurship
Sources of adult motives in patterns of parent behavior in early childhood
Childhood antecedents of conventional social accomplishment in midlife adults
Husband's motives and wife's career level
Motivation and Personality
Lives of women and men active in the social protests of the 1960s
This study found that 46 of 116 children from the R. R. Sears, E. E. Maccoby, and H. Levin (1957) child-rearing study classified at age 31 as participants in the protest movements of the 1960s came more often from middle-class families and attained higher educational levels than their counterparts who did not participate in the protests. In midlife, activists remained more rebellious and altruistic than their peers of equivalent education. Sixtie…
Motivational Patterns in Southeast Asia with Special Reference to the Chinese Case 1
Talent and Society
Does Education Accelerate Economic Growth
Obligations to self and society in the United States and Germany
A Cross-Cultural Study of Folk-Tale Content and Drinking
A representative sample of independent cultures was carefully chosen to check cross-cultural correlates of drinking and the folk-tale themes associated with it. Analysis of the folk-tales was carried out by the computer-based General Inquirer System which coded the content according to some 88 tags of which 14 yielded significant correlations with drinking. As in previous studies, several societal variables (suck as hunting and indexes of simple …
The effects of male social drinking on fantasy
Dreams and Deeds
The classic personal style
A functional classification of verbal reactions to experimentally induced failure
The knowledge-testing-educational complex strikes back
Testing for competence rather than for 'intelligence
The Achieving Society
The Achievement Motive
A functional classification of verbal reactions to experimentally induced failure
The Effect of Need for Achievement on Recognition of Need-Related Words1
Personality.
Perception
The achievement motive.
Across the secretary's desk
The Achievement Motive
Motivation and personality and Nebraska symposium on motivation
A Factor Analytic Integration of Imaginative and Performance Measures of the Need for Achievement
(1956). A Factor Analytic Integration of Imaginative and Performance Measures of the Need for Achievement. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 73-83
Obligations to self and society in the United States and Germany
Talent and Society
Religious Overtones in Psychoanalysis
The achieving society.
Examines the motivation for achievement as a psychological factor that shapes economic development. Refuting arguments based on race, climate, or population growth, the book instead argues for cultural customs and motivations - especially the motivation for achievement - as the major catalysts of economic growth. Considering the Protestant Reformation, the rise of capitalism, parents' influences on sons, and folklore and children's stories as sha…
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
The Achieving Society
Motivational Patterns in Southeast Asia with Special Reference to the Chinese Case 1
The classic personal style
The Achieving Society
Toward a theory of motive acquisition
N achievement and entrepreneurship
The effects of male social drinking on fantasy
A Cross-Cultural Study of Folk-Tale Content and Drinking
A representative sample of independent cultures was carefully chosen to check cross-cultural correlates of drinking and the folk-tale themes associated with it. Analysis of the folk-tales was carried out by the computer-based General Inquirer System which coded the content according to some 88 tags of which 14 yielded significant correlations with drinking. As in previous studies, several societal variables (suck as hunting and indexes of simple …
Does Education Accelerate Economic Growth
Dreams and Deeds
Reports on Achievement Motivation, Barpali, India. Thomas M. Fraser, Jr
Psychology (47 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Psychological Testing and Assessment (9 works) · Applied Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works)