Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior.
With progress in society, a lot of focus is placed on achievement. A culture promoting achievement-orientedness will help one climb up the social hierarchy faster. On the other hand, achievement-orientedness leads to less interpersonal sensitivity. Is achievement-orientedness an important factor in...
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| author | Wong, Zhan Zhi. |
| author2 | Wan Ching |
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| description | With progress in society, a lot of focus is placed on achievement. A culture promoting achievement-orientedness will help one climb up the social hierarchy faster. On the other hand, achievement-orientedness leads to less interpersonal sensitivity. Is achievement-orientedness an important factor in determining helping behavior? This study sets out to show that high achievement-orientedness does impede helping behavior but only in an achievement-focused situation. Results showed that individuals who were highly achievement-oriented were more likely to help compared to individuals who were less achievement-oriented, but only in the competitive condition but not in the self-competitive condition. Suggestions for future direction are looked at as well. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/386042019-12-10T14:41:45Z Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. Wong, Zhan Zhi. Wan Ching School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation With progress in society, a lot of focus is placed on achievement. A culture promoting achievement-orientedness will help one climb up the social hierarchy faster. On the other hand, achievement-orientedness leads to less interpersonal sensitivity. Is achievement-orientedness an important factor in determining helping behavior? This study sets out to show that high achievement-orientedness does impede helping behavior but only in an achievement-focused situation. Results showed that individuals who were highly achievement-oriented were more likely to help compared to individuals who were less achievement-oriented, but only in the competitive condition but not in the self-competitive condition. Suggestions for future direction are looked at as well. Bachelor of Arts 2010-05-13T03:10:26Z 2010-05-13T03:10:26Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38604 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation Wong, Zhan Zhi. Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. |
| title | Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. |
| title_full | Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. |
| title_fullStr | Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. |
| title_short | Disposition-situation approach to study the relationship between achievement-orientedness and helping behavior. |
| title_sort | disposition situation approach to study the relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behavior |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38604 |
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