Impression management and achievement motivation

Andrew J. Elliot, Nawal Aldhobaiban, Kou Murayama, Ahmed Kobeisy, Małgorzata A. Gocłowska, Aber Khyat

OAI: oai:purehost.bath.ac.uk:openaire_cris_publications/41befbc6-7683-4555-89cf-44465738ba3e • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12252

In this research, we investigate impression management (IM) as a substantive personality variable by linking it to differentiated achievement motivation constructs, namely achievement motives (workmastery, competitiveness, fear of failure) and achievement goals (mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, performance-avoidance). Study 1 revealed that IM was a positive predictor of workmastery and a negative predictor of competitiveness (with and without self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) controlled). Studies 2a and 2b revealed that IM was a positive predictor of mastery-approach goals and mastery-avoidance goals (without and, in Study 2b, with SDE controlled). These findings highlight the value of conceptualising and utilising IM as a personality variable in its own right and shed light on the nature of the achievement motive and achievement goal constructs.

achievement motivation Goals Impression management motives Self-deceptive enhancement /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3200 name=General Psychology /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1201 name=Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)