Categorical goal hierarchies and classification of human motives

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19280802
AutoresFrank W Wicker (The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente), Frank B Lambert (The University of Texas at Austin), Frank C Richardson (0009-0006-8719-9404, The University of Texas at Austin), Joseph Kahler (The University of Texas at Austin)
Ano1984
Volume52
Fascículo3
Páginas285-305
Data de publicação1984-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6494.1984.tb00883.x
OpenAlexW2070105818
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34
Referências citadas9

To explore a structural approach to motivation based on hierarchies of goal inclusion, 231 subjects in two studies rated the valence of 46 or 56 general goals, and ratings were subjected to hierarchical cluster analysis and factor analysis. Factors over all subjects were labeled Interpersonal Concern, Competitive Ambition, Exploration‐play, Balanced Success, Economic Status , and Intellectual Orientation . Cluster analyses produced corresponding clusters, as well as Security, Personal Growth, Transpersonal Orientation , and Tranquility Seeking , arranged in hierarchies of class inclusion, culminating in a broad goal dichotomy described as Individual Striving vs. Harmony Seeking . The paper explicates a type of hierarchical interdependency among motives which supplements interdependencies implied by motivation theories, and suggests an alternative to the assumption of some fixed number of “basic” motives. It gives descriptive data on very broad motivation categories which influence self‐reports of goal importance and which relate to prior classifications of motivation, personality, and social behavior

Categorical variable · Interdependence · Interpersonal communication · Personality · Sociology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology