Subject anonymity and motivational distortion in self-report data

✍ Scribed by Gilbert Becker; Donald A. Bakal

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(197004)26:2<207::aid-jclp2270260224>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

FHANKL'S WILL TO MEANING IN A RELIGIOUS OHDEH m 7

2. There was a substantial relationship (r = .48) between PIL scores and the general average of all ratings of proficiency in the training program. The relationship drops to .36 when proficiency ratings are limited to thoae of the Superior Sisters. These latter ratings are, of course, the most significant in the determination of success in training.

There was no high relationship between PIL scores and measures of any personality trait, though there was a substantial relationship (r = -.52) with the anxiety scale of the 16 PF test. The next highest relationship wm with the selfconfidence scale of the 16 PF (r = .44).

There was no significant difference between the PIL scores of dropouts and those who sustained their performance in the training program.

SUBIIIAHY

The Purpose-iu-Life (PIL) Test (designed to measure Frankl's "will to meaning") and a battery of personality measures were employed to study motivation in trainees for a religious order (a congregation of Dominican sisters).