Associations among achievement measures and their collective prediction of work involvement

The present study found that the constructs of achievement striving, intrinsic motivation to accomplish, and need for achievement, while positively correlated with one another, were not statistically redundant. The study further found that these three achievement constructs, when taken together, significantly predict work involvement. Although this was found to be the case, need for achievement was found to be a superfluous predictor. Therefore, it is recommended that this predictor be removed from the prediction equation in the interest of parsimony. Intrinsic motivation to accomplish was found to be the most significant predictor of work involvement, with the combination of intrinsic motivation to accomplish and achievement striving collectively predicting the greatest proportion of variance in involvement. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.