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The research group consisted of 121 adolescent women students in a military training unit. Seven questionnaires, constructed to measure cognitive dimensions of achievement motivation, were administered in January and December of the same year. Principal axis factor analysis with Varimax rotation of the data gathered in January, yielded five factors, viz. (a) a rigid value system; (b) attitude regarding causality; (c) need for dependence on others versus independence of others; (d) orientation to socially acceptable norms; and (e) attitude regarding feedback from the environment.

The factorial structure extracted from the data gathered in December again yielded the first three factors but also included a new unique factor viz. autonomous and social achievement values. These results supported the hypothesis that the achievement motivation construct as manifested by the research group, is multidimensional. Significant coefficients of congruence between the factorial structures obtained in January and December supported the hypothesis that the achievement motivation construct remained stable over a period of one year.

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Women's Achievement Motivation: A Multi-Dimensional Construct

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