Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis

Charles P. Smith

Cambridge University Press, Jun 26, 1992 - Psychology - 708 pages

Motivation and Personality is the first book to be devoted primarily to content analysis systems for assessment of characteristics of the individuals, groups, or historical periods that create verbal materials. Part I discusses general issues including the merits of content analysis and its relation to other contemporary methods of motivation and personality assessment, the determinants of thematic apperception and the use of thematic methods in survey research and for the analysis of archival and naturally-occurring verbal materials. Part II presents 14 different coding manuals, each with an introductory chapter, and Part III deals with methodological considerations and materials for learning how to obtain and code verbal materials. The volume will serve as a handbook for researchers who wish to use content analytic methods for research in personology, experimental psychology, or social science, and also as a reference work providing information about content analytic measures of motives for achievement, affiliation, intimacy, and power, as well as measures of personal causation, conceptual complexity, uncertainty orientation, explanatory style, psychological stances toward the environment, self-definition, and responsibility. The various systems, research regarding the background of the systems, and practice materials are included to create a book that is both reference and handbook.

Contents

• Attribution and cognitive orientations: 10
• Motivational determinants of thematic apperception: 21
• How do selfattributed and implicit motives differ?: 49
• Thematic analysis experience sampling and personal goals: 73
• Motivational configurations: 87
• Thematic apperceptive methods in survey research: 100
• Reliability issues: 126
• Achievement: 143
• A scoring manual for the achievement motive: 153
• The motive to avoid success: 179
• A revised scoring manual for the motive to avoid success: 190
• Affiliation: 205
• A scoring manual for the affiliation motive: 211
• The intimacy motive: 224
• Affiliative trustmistrust: 254
• A scoring system for affiliative trustmistrust: 266
• Power: 278
• A scoring manual for the power motive: 286
• Power motivation revisited: 301
• A revised scoring system for the power motive: 311
• Personal causation and the origin concept: 325
• The origin scoring system: 334
• Explanatory style: 382
• The conceptualintegrative complexity scoring manual: 401
• Uncertainty orientation: 419
• A manual for scoring need for uncertainty: 428
• Psychosocial orientations: 440
• Scoring manual for psychological stances toward: 451
• personal styles reflected: 481
• Revised scoring manual for selfdefinition and social definition: 489
• Responsibility: 500
• Scoring system for responsibility: 506
• Practice materials for learning the scoring systems: 537
• Scoring for n Achievement: 560
• Scoring for n Affiliation: 573
• Scoring for affiliative trustmistrust: 587
• Scoring for explanatory style: 601
• Scoring for psychological stances toward the environment: 617
• Sex of practice story subjects: 630
• How to order additional practice materials: 648
• Name Index: 689

Bibliographic information

• Title: Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis
• Editor: Charles P. Smith
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992
• ISBN: 052140052X, 9780521400527
• Length: 708 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Assessment, Testing & Measurement; Psychology / Research & Methodology; Psychology / Social Psychology; Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational