Motivation to achieve success in adolescence and adulthood

Abstract

The relevance of the study of motivation for achieving success in the prism of psychology of different age stages is due to the problem of the ambiguous manifestation of the studied phenomenon in the course of a person’s life, as well as the need to identify the causes of declines and rises in motivation to achieve success. In our study, we set ourselves the goal of conducting a comparative analysis of the motivation for achieving success in adolescence and adulthood. The test by T. Ehlers “Motivation to achieve success” was used as a diagnostic method. For the mathematical processing of the empirical data, the calculations of the Pearson correlation coefficient and the Student’s t-test were used. Having studied the diagnostic material of 27 adolescents and 30 people of mature age, the highest average indicators of motivation for achieving success were found in subjects aged 28-38 years (the period of rise), and the lowest - in subjects aged 39-42 years (the period of decline). In the direction of further work on the study of the motivation for achieving success, a study is being carried out with a large number of respondents of different ages and genders using additional empirical methods that allow us to identify the causes and factors of reducing the motivation for achieving success at different age stages.