Some Correlates of Achievement Motivation Among Chinese High-school Boys

This study dealt with the relationship of several psychological and sociological variables to achievement motivation, as measured by a modified McClelland procedure, among 96 Chinese high-school boys. The need for achievement was found to have meaningful relation with three variables: individual modernity, father's socioenomic status, and birth order. Specifically, n Ach positively correlated with individual modernity and was an inverted-U function of father's SES. As for ordinal position, the first-born scored significantly higher inn Ach than the youngest, with the middle children having a mean in between.