RELATION BETWEEN ACHIEVEMENT-MOTIVATION A ND ANXIETY IN MEN - INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF STATE-TRAIT ANXIETY

When studying the achievement motivation, the relation of achievement motivation to anxiety seems to be an important question. The hitherto studies did not respect the fact that anxiety is not one-dimensional. On the basis of factor analysis of the STAI Questionnaire, we isolated in keeping with other authors - two components of state and two compo nents of trait anxiety (based on positively and negatively formulated items). In 123 university students-men, we studied the relation of the se components to achievement motivation, to anxiety slowing down perfo rmance, and to anxiety supporting performance. Our analysis was also c ompleted - on the basis of previous results - with the relation to the temperament characteristics and to the L-score (EOD). We have found t hat individual components of anxiety affect achievement motivation in a differentiated way. Achievement motivation and anxiety supporting pe rformance are equally increased by the fact how happy the student cons iders himself to be, and how strong the state anxiety is which he expe riences. In addition, achievement motivation correlates with the L-sco re: the higher the L-score is, the higher the level of achievement mot ivation seems to be.