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An Objective Measure of the Motive to Avoid Appearing Incompetent

Published:1973-06 Issue:3_suppl Volume:32 Page:1075-1078
ISSN:0033-2941
Container-title:Psychological Reports
language:en
Short-container-title:Psychol Rep

Author:

Good Lawrence R.¹,Good Katherine C.¹

Affiliation:

1. Middle Tennessee State University

Abstract

The development of a self-report measure of the motive to avoid appearing incompetent is discussed. The reliability coefficient (KR-20) obtained for the final form of the 36-item, true-false scale was .89 for a sample of 355 undergraduates.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pr0.1973.32.3c.1075

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