Objective versus projective measurement of need for achievement: the relation between TAT and CMPS

Abstract

In entrepreneurship research, self‐reporting using questionnaires is often used as a replacement for the projective test, the thematic apperception test (TAT). Posits that this study is to examine whether an objective test, Cezarec‐Marks personal scheme (CMPS) can be used as a replacement measure for TAT. States that the subjects in the investigation are people in higher education; two measures of the same individuals, over a period of seven months, were carried out, the average age at the first test was 21.3 years, and an analysis of correlation shows no correlation (r(t1) = 0.0556, n = 89, r(t)2 = 0.0733, n = 71) between need for achievement with TAT and need for achievement with CMPS. Confirms the findings of the study that the hypothesis of TAT cannot be replaced by CMPS.

Citation

Hansemark, O.C. (1997), "Objective versus projective measurement of need for achievement: the relation between TAT and CMPS", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 280-289. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683949710174874