Mapping explicit social motives of achievement, power, and affiliation onto the five-factor model of personality

Authors: ENGESER, STEFAN¹; LANGENS, THOMAS²

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Volume 51, Number 4, August 2010 , pp. 309-318(10)

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Abstract:

Engeser, S. & Langens, T. (2010). Mapping explicit social motives of achievement, power, and affiliation onto the five-factor model of personality. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Previous research has shown that explicit motives are meaningfully related to the five-factor model of personality. The present study extends this research by using different measures of the explicit social motives of achievement, power and affiliation, and by employing measures of both approach and avoidance of these motives. Correlational and factor analyses demonstrated that explicit motives of achievement, power, and affiliation, both approach and avoidance components of these motives, can be consistently mapped onto personality trait measures of the five-factor model. Implications of this general finding, along with some exceptions, are discussed with regard to further research.

Keywords: Five-factor model of personality; explicit; implicit; social motives; traits

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00773.x

Affiliations: 1: Technsiche Universität München - Lehrstuhl für Psychologie, Germany 2: Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal - Psychology, Germany

Publication date: 2010-08-01