AUTHOR=Rawolle Maika , Schultheiss Maria , Schultheiss Oliver C.

TITLE=Relationships between implicit motives, self-attributed motives, and personal goal commitments

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=4

YEAR=2013

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00923

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00923

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>This research examined the relationships between measures of the implicit and the explicit motivational systems. We analyzed the relationships between picture-story measures of implicit motives, questionnaire measures of self-attributed motives, and ideographically assessed personal goal commitments within the domains achievement, affiliation, and power through a reanalysis of three data sets from the USA and Germany (total <italic>N</italic> = 309). No significant positive within-domain correlations of implicit motives with self-attributed motives or personal goal commitments were found, and self-attributed motives correlated substantially and positively with personal goals. Results did not systematically differ between data sets.</p>