Achievement Motivation and It's Relation with Some Personality Variables Among Children of Primary Schools in Qatar State "A Comparitive Factorial Study "

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examin the relation between achievement motivation and the following personality traits : anxiety, neuroticism, extraversion among a sample of male students ( N = 110) and female students (N=110) of the 6th. primary schools in Qatar State. The researchers developed a scale for measuring achievement motivation which was composed - in it's last form - of 20 items. Also the researchers administrated the Children Anxiety Scale and Neuroticism and Extraversion scales from the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The research results revealed significant differencees between both sex in anxiety and neuroticism. Concering the results of correlation it was as follows : Positive correlation between achievement motivation and neuroticism and between anxiety and neuroticism and negative carrelation between neuroticism and extraversion, this among male sample. For the female sample, correlation were as follows : negative correlation between achievement motivation and anxiety, positive correlation between anxiety and neuroticism and negative correlation between neuroticism and extraversion. Factor analysis revealed two factors for male and another two for females. Results were discussed in the light of the Arabic and English previous studies, also some recomendations where introduced.