Abstract
Summary An attempt is made to construct an achievement motivation inventory with the use of single words rather than sentences as items. A set of 54 such items was given to a random doorstep sample of 145 Sydney adults. Ten of the 54 items were found to form a new scale with a reliability of .80 which correlated .59 with a conventional scale. The new scale was, however, all-positive (no antiachievement items). To overcome this, a new set of negative items was administered with the new scale to a sample of 87 Sydney people (representative on age, sex, and education). Ten negative items were found which overall gave a correlation of —.46 with the all-positive scale. The reliability for the combined 20-item scale was .87 and it predicted the respondents' rated actual life achievement .405 compared with .170 for a conventional scale.
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