The Construction of an Africentric Sentence Completion Test to Assess the Need for Achievement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18966664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Egbeazien Oshodi (The Oshodi Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-231 |
| Publication date | 1999-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002193479903000205 |
| OpenAlex | W2038215386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Fifty years of achievement motivation studies have stemmed from Henry A. Murray's (1938) definition of need for achievement: To accomplish something difficult; to master, manipulate, or organize physical objects, human beings, or ideas; to do this as rapidly and as independently as possible; to overcome obstacles and attain a high standard; to excel in one's self; to rival and surpass others; to increase self-regard by the successful exercise of talent (p. 164). The determination and research procedures for the study of need for achievement have always revolved around the use of Murray's Thematic Apperception Test, White-male-oriented samples, and theories of personality/motivation advanced by Euro-American scholars (Atkinson, 1964; McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953). The continued use of Eurocentric theory, concepts, and frameworks in the conceptualization and evaluation of achievement motives in African American Blacks deeply undermines the spiritual, communal, nonmaterial, and wholistic traits that form the basis of achievement motivation in African descendants (Asante, 1990; Baldwin, Brown, & Rackley, 1990; Bell, 1994; Mbiti, 1970; Myers, 1988; Ogbonnaya, 1994). Given that the African personality revolves around nonlinear, spiritual, and wholistic expression of oneself (Akbar, 1979; Azibo, 1989; Oshodi, 1996), an attempt was
African american · Afrocentrism · Apperception · Cognitive psychology · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Maslow's hierarchy of needs · Need for achievement · Personality · Sentence completion tests · Sociology · Test (biology) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |