A Revised 10-Item Version of The Achievement Motives Scale: Psychometric Properties in German-Speaking Samples

By Jonas W. B. Lang, Stefan Fries. 2006

263 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research

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In Applied Psychology

1. Nicolas Gillet
2. Felix D. Schönbrodt
3. J. Reeve
4. Alexandre J. S. Morin
5. J. Crusius
6. R. García‐Retamero
7. R. Imhoff
8. A. Schmidt

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Nicolas Gillet
2. Felix D. Schönbrodt
3. Alexandre J. S. Morin
4. J. Crusius
5. Jens Lange
6. R. Imhoff
7. J. Reeve
8. R. García‐Retamero

In Safety Research

1. Nicolas Gillet
2. Alexandre J. S. Morin
3. J. Crusius
4. J. Reeve
5. R. Imhoff
6. Felix D. Schönbrodt
7. A. Schmidt
8. Mirta Galesic

Citations in the corpus

• Is Searching for Meaning in Life Associated With Reduced Subjective Well-Being? Confirmation and Possible Moderators (2012, methodology): “The Achievement Motives Scale (AMS: Gjesme and Nygard 1970) was based on the motivational theories of McClelland et al. (1953) and has been one of the best established and most frequently used scales in the field of achievement ( Lang and Fries 2006 ).”
• The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, methodology): “We measured achievement motivation with the short version of the Achievement Motives Scale (Lang & Fries, 2006).”
• Measuring Risk Literacy: The Berlin Numeracy Test (2012, background): “Lang and Fries (2006) Self efficacy A10 item self-report measure of one’s general sense of self efficacy.”
• Exploring the Interplay of Trait Self–Control and Ego Depletion: Empirical Evidence for Ironic Effects (2014, methodology): “Achievement motivation was measured using a German version of the Achievement Motives Scale (AMS; Gjesme & Nygard, 1970; German version: Lang & Fries, 2007).”
• An IRT analysis of motive questionnaires: The Unified Motive Scales (2012, methodology): “To assess task enjoyment, we used three items afer participants completed the Sudoku puzzles (see Lang & Fries, 2006).”
• Stability, change, and implications of students’ motivation profiles: A latent transition analysis (2017, result): “…in line with recent studies (Michou, Matos, Gargurevich, Gumus, & Herrera, 2016; van der Kaap-Deeder et al., 2016) showing that motive dispositions (Lang & Fries, 2006) relate to autonomous and controlled forms of motivation, these additional investigations might assess dimensions such as motive…”