The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour.
Participants assigned to a competitive, self-competitive or non-competitive condition were given five minutes to play a computer game while faced with an opportunity to help a confederate. Results indicated that individuals who obtained high achievement orientedness scores were less likely to help t...
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| author | Lim, Jia Yin. |
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| description | Participants assigned to a competitive, self-competitive or non-competitive condition were given five minutes to play a computer game while faced with an opportunity to help a confederate. Results indicated that individuals who obtained high achievement orientedness scores were less likely to help than individuals who obtained low achievement orientedness scores, but only in the competitive condition. In the self-competitive and non-competitive conditions, there was no significant difference in the likelihood of helping for participants who were high on achievement orientedness and for participants who were low on achievement orientedness. It was also found that neither dispositional achievement orientedness nor situational achievement orientedness alone was a significant predictor of the likelihood to help. These results show support for the disposition-situation interaction approach to predicting helping behaviour. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/396962019-12-10T14:11:33Z The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. Lim, Jia Yin. Wan Ching School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation Participants assigned to a competitive, self-competitive or non-competitive condition were given five minutes to play a computer game while faced with an opportunity to help a confederate. Results indicated that individuals who obtained high achievement orientedness scores were less likely to help than individuals who obtained low achievement orientedness scores, but only in the competitive condition. In the self-competitive and non-competitive conditions, there was no significant difference in the likelihood of helping for participants who were high on achievement orientedness and for participants who were low on achievement orientedness. It was also found that neither dispositional achievement orientedness nor situational achievement orientedness alone was a significant predictor of the likelihood to help. These results show support for the disposition-situation interaction approach to predicting helping behaviour. Bachelor of Arts 2010-06-03T02:01:37Z 2010-06-03T02:01:37Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39696 en Nanyang Technological University 28 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation Lim, Jia Yin. The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. |
| title | The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. |
| title_full | The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. |
| title_short | The relationship between achievement orientedness and helping behaviour. |
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