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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 5, Pages 804-818Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.82.5.804
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH57054-01] Funding Source: Medline
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The present research examined the role of approach and avoidance motivation in models of personality. Specifically, it examined the hypothesis that approach and avoidance temperaments represent the foundation of several basic dimensions espoused in the trait adjective, affective disposition, and motivational system approaches to personality, Factor analytic support for the hypothesis was obtained in Studies, 1, 2, and 6; measures of extraversion, positive emotionality, and behavioral activation system loaded together on I factor (Approach Temperament) and measures of neuroticism. negative emotionality, and behavioral inhibition system loaded on another factor (Avoidance Temperament), This 2-factor structure was shown to be independent of response biases, In Studies 3-7, approach and avoidance temperaments were shown to be systematically linked to achievement goals (both nomothetic and idiographic). The findings are discussed in terms of an integrative approach to personality.
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