A Theory Of Achievement Motivation

By K. Fiedler. 2016

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Does West “Fit” with East? In Search of a Chinese Model of Person–Environment Fit (2015, background): “Although informants often used such words as “achievement” (e.g., “The success of my plan made me feel that I really achieved something”), our data show that realization is more than a psychological need (e.g., Atkinson & Feather, 1966; McClelland & Liberman, 1949).”
Moving the Achievement Goal Approach One Step Forward: Toward a Systematic Examination of the Autonomous and Controlled Reasons Underlying Achievement Goals (2014, unknown): “Of interest, and in contrast to Atkinson’s original view that fear of failure is inhibitory (Atkinson & Feather, 1966), both the need for achievement and fear of failure have been found to relate to performance-approach goals, suggesting that performance-approach goals can be instigated by…”
A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship (2016, background): “However, our view—and that of the psychology literature (e.g., Atkinson and Feather, 1966; Conroy, 2001; McClelland et al., 1953)—is that a stable predisposition to experience fear of failure and the experience of fear of failure itself represent two sides of the same coin.”