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Impression management and achievement motivation: investigating substantive links

Elliot, A., J., Aldhobaiban, N., Murayama, K., Kobeisy, A., Gocłowska, M. A. and Khyat, A. (2018) Impression management and achievement motivation: investigating substantive links. International Journal of Psychology, 53 (1). pp. 16-22. ISSN 0020-7594

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12252

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In the present research we investigate impression management (IM) as a substantive personality variable by linking it to differentiated achievement motivation constructs, namely achievement motives (workmastery, competitiveness, fear of failure) and achievement goals (mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, performance-avoidance). Study 1 revealed that IM was a positive predictor of workmastery and a negative predictor of competitiveness (with and without self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) controlled). Studies 2a and 2b revealed that IM was a positive predictor of mastery-approach goals and mastery-avoidance goals (without and, in Study 2b, with SDE controlled). These findings highlight the value of conceptualizing and utilizing IM as a personality variable in its own right, and shed light on the nature of the achievement motive and achievement goal constructs.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
ID Code:65728
Publisher:Wiley

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