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Achievement motivation in Bulgaria and the United States: a cross-country comparison

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dc.contributor.authorCigularov, Konstantin Petkov, author
dc.contributor.authorThornton, George C., III, advisor
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T19:26:08Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T19:26:08Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe present study used the multifaceted Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI: Schuler, Thornton, Frintrup, & Mueller-Hanson, 2004) to compare the achievement motivation of college students from Bulgaria (n = 465) and the United States (n = 1022) at the facet level. Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses revealed that 11 of the 17 AMI scales exhibited measurement invariance across the two samples. Results from the latent and observed mean differences analyses were consistent to indicate that, compared to students from the United States, Bulgarian students reported higher levels of Compensatory Effort, Flow, Persistence, Preference for Difficult Tasks, Pride in Productivity, and Self-Control; lower levels of Fearlessness and Internality; and similar levels of Competitiveness, Confidence in Success, and Status Orientation. These findings illustrate the importance of establishing measurement invariance prior to making mean comparisons and the usefulness of multifaceted assessment in examining and comparing the achievement motivation profiles of individuals with different backgrounds and characteristics. Implications of the results, limitations, as well as recommendations for future research are discussed.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierETDF_Cigularov_2008_3346440.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237650
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectAchievement Motivation Inventory
dc.subjectachievement motivation
dc.subjectBulgaria
dc.subjectcross-cultural psychology
dc.subjectlatent mean differences
dc.subjectmeasurement invariance
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subjecteducational psychology
dc.subjectexperimental psychology
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subjectacademic achievement
dc.subjectmotivation
dc.subjectcomparative studies
dc.titleAchievement motivation in Bulgaria and the United States: a cross-country comparison
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thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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