Abstract:

This article is devoted to the study of value orientation and achievement motivation among 1st year students of the Humanities at the University (Russia). In the modern world the values of achieving success are strengthenin. High school is one of the opportunities to express and strengthen their own achievement motivation. In the University students are with certain ambitions and plans for life. It is very important to be in harmony with your achievement motivation and morality.

It is assumed that in the structure of achievement motivation there are two components: adaptive achievement motivation (linked to social prestige, competition and need for feedback) and transcendentive achievement motivation (connected with overcoming, realization, preference of difficult task, compensatory effort).

This study involved 68 students, 15 male and 53 female (all of them study in Humanities subjects).

For the study of achievement motivation was used «The Achievement Motivation Inventory» (A. Mehrabian), «Achievement motivation: adaptation and transcendence» (S.O. Vindeker). For research of value orientations was used Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire (W. Schwartz). To process data, we used nonparametric statistics.

It is determined that achievement motivation is associated with a wide range of value orientations (p≤0.05): social prestige, high financial status, power and so on, and also with the values of self-development (creativity, self-development, the need for deep emotions) and moral values (kindness, friendly relations with others, friendship).

It is concluded that Humanities students’ achievement motivation has a complex structure and is associated not only with the values of success and efficiency but also with moral values.

Keywords:

Achievement motivation, values of success, moral values, students.