Abstract
M.A. (Industrial Psychology)
The object of this study is to determine the correlation between
selfconcepts selfactualization and anxiety on the one hand and
-achievement motivation, as applicable to persons in middle
management positions in the mining industry.
Four different psychological questionnaires were used that is
the Achievement motivation questionnaire of Malan (1978) as adjusted
by Pottas and Lessing (1979L the Selfconcept questionnaire of
Vrey (1974)s the IPAT Anxiety scale and the Selfrealization questionnaire
of Osrin {1972}.
The four questionnaires were administered to 110 middle-managers in the
mining industry.
It was found that the sUbjects obtained relatively high scores on
the self-images selfrealization s achievement motivation and the
three components of achievement motivations namely selfdetermination,
the urge to complete uncompleted tasks and goal directedness. The
scores obtained on the anxiety scale were relatively low.
It was further found that-there existed a negative linear correlation
between anxiety and achievement motivation,- in contrast with the
initial hipothesis, namely that a curvilinear correlation exists
between the two variables. Selfconcept and selfrealization both
yielded a positive linear correlation with achievement motivation
and its three components; which confirms the hypothesis.
It was found that anxiety formed a negative correlation with all the
variables. A positive linear correlation was obtained between
selfrealization and selfconcept.