A Study Of Achievement Motivation And Fear Of Success Of Students From Ordinary And Important Normal University

Achievement motivation is a very complicated element of humankind's dynamic system, which has a positive influence on individual behavior as a kind of individual mental characteristics. Meanwhile, it is also an important quality which forms during individual socialization so as to adapt to social life , and mental mechanism stimulating individual self—achievement and enterprise and main appetite of modern people, which is a crucial factor determining an individual success or failure of enterprise.The aim is to explore the characteristic, difference and of achievement motivation and fear of success between the students from ordinary normal university affiliated to provincial administration institution and ones from important normal university directly affiliated to the State Educational Ministry, and the relationship between achievement motivation and fear of success as well. By the questionnaire of achievement motivation and projective technique, a sample of 382 university students were tested which were selected from Northeast Normal University and Jilin Normal University at random.The conclusion includes:1. There exists significant difference at level of achievement motivation between the students from important normal university and ones from ordinary normal university. The level of achievement motivation of the former is higher significantly than that of the latter; there doesn't exist significant difference at level of achievement motivation between different sex of normal university; there exists significant difference at level of achievement motivation among different major, which the level of achievement motivation of the science students is higher significantly than that of the arts students.2. There exists significant difference at level of fear of success between the students from important normal university and ones from ordinary normal university. The level of fear of success of the former is higher significantly than that of the latter; the male and female students both show fear of success, but there doesn't exist significant difference at level of achievement motivation between different sexes of normal university; the fear of success of normal university students includes fear of school work, fear of interpersonal relationship, fear of family and fear of enterprise; female students show higher level of fear of school work,, fear of family and fear of enterprise than male students; the level of fear of enterprise of arts students is higher than that of science ones.3. There doesn't exists significant correlation at level of achievement motivation, motivation of seeking success, motivation of avoiding failure and fear of success for normal university students.