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Dear colleagues,
I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's
Needs (Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are
aware of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
jcryanphd@gmail.com

sincere thanks in advance,
James

Hi James, you could try the
BIP - Business-focused Inventory of Personality
http://www.hogrefe.co.uk/?/test/show/53/
Regards, Birgit

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>>> James Ryan <jcryanphd@GMAIL.COM> 02/03/09 11:27 am >>>
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's
Needs (Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are
aware of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
jcryanphd@gmail.com

sincere thanks in advance,
James

James

Have a look at the Personality Research Form.

http://www.sigmaassessmentsystems.com/assessments/prf.asp

You may be able to verify that some of its scales get used in research
that gets published in high quality journals--which is a good sign in
terms of validity. That's my impression for the Achievement scale,
anyway. There may not be a good counterpart to power (depending on what
the PRF's Dominance scale and other scales concern), nor do I know
whether its Affiliation is the same as McClelland's. And I won't get
into the issue of whether a projective assessment would be preferable to
this self-report measure (except to say that if PRF scales have
predicted what they should predict in high quality research, that's one
answer to the projective test proponents).

The publisher might allow you to use the scales at no cost or very
nominal cost if you are using it for research as such; that's what they
told me some years back, anyway.

Good luck
John

James Ryan wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's
> Needs (Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
> Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
> have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are
> aware of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
> jcryanphd@gmail.com
>
> sincere thanks in advance,
> James
>

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Steers had a measure which I have used.

Steers, R.M., & Braunstein D.N. (1976). A behaviorally-based measure of
manifest needs in work settings. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 9, 251-266.

James Ryan wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's
> Needs (Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
> Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
> have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are
> aware of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
> jcryanphd@gmail.com
>
> sincere thanks in advance,
> James
>
>

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Hi James:

I believe the Edwards Personality Preference Schedule has these scales.

Mark Mishken
Pace University


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Subject: measures for Achievement, Power and Affiliation Needs

Dear colleagues,
I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's
Needs (Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are
aware of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
jcryanphd@gmail.com

sincere thanks in advance,
James

Hi James,

You may use the multi-motive-grid.

Sokolowski, K., Schmalt, H.-D., Langens, T. A., & Puca, R. M. (2000).
Assessing achievement, affiliation, and power motives all at once: The
multi-motive grid (MMG). Journal of Personality Assessment, 74, 126-145.


Cheers,
Steffen

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Subject: measures for Achievement, Power and Affiliation Needs

Dear colleagues,
I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's Needs
(Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are aware
of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
jcryanphd@gmail.com

sincere thanks in advance,
James

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I agree with Marty. Motives are meant to be implicit and apparently
cannot be tapped by self-reported measures. See:

Winter, D. G., John, O. P., Stewart, A. J., Klohnen, E. C., & Duncan, L.
E. 1998. Traits and motives: Toward an integration of two traditions in
personality research. Psychological Review, 105: 230-250.

Best,
J.

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On 03.02.2009 17:23, Martin Evans wrote:
> I don't think it can be done.
>
> The whole point of McClelland's use of the TAT was to try to tap
> unconscious motives. There are sentence completion and picture
> versions of the TAT. There may even be machine scoring protocols.
>
> There are questionnaire versions, but they seem to tap something
> different than the TAT taps; sorry I cannot retrieve many references.
> Here is one:
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a785039559~db=all
>
> <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content%7Econtent=a785039559%7Edb=all>I
> suggest you contact David Winter at the University of Michigan who is
> an expert on motivation and its measurement.
>
> Also this may help
>
> Lilienfeld, S.O., Wood, J.M., and Garb, H.N. (2000).
> General overview of TAT research: Problems
> and findings. /Psychological science in the public
> interest, 1/, 2.
>
>
>
> hth
> m
>
> At 06:27 AM 2/3/2009, you wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>> I am looking for some questionnaire type measures of McClelland's
>> Needs (Achievement most importantly, but also for Power and
>> Affiliation) for a study of undergraduate students here in the UAE. I
>> have done a preliminary search but with little success. If you are
>> aware of any suitable and reliable measures please forward to
>> jcryanphd@gmail.com
>>
>> sincere thanks in advance,
>> James
>
> Martin G. Evans
> Professor Emeritus, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
>
> URL: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~evans
> <http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/%7Eevans> blog:
> http://martingevans.blogspot.com/
>
>
> ,,, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American
> people upon which this nation relies. It is ... the selflessness of
> workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job.
> Barack H. Obama
>
> The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance
> of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who
> have too little.
> Franklin D. Roosevelt
>