Is Power Adaptive Or Maladaptive Flashcards
What is the incentive of n achievement
Mastery ; people who are high on achievement have a preference for experiences of doing well and being successful
What is the incentive of n power ?
Impact ; n power is the recurrent preference for experiences of having impact on others
Natural incentive of N intimacy ?
A recurrent preference for experiences of warm, close, and communicative interactions with others
Why are the big three motives interesting to study?
Because they have been linked to the different kinds of careers we may be drawn to and do well in
Lots of research has been done in the 50s 60s and 70s and they used Klimt term longitudinal studies where they were trying to see if your motives as a 20 years old would predict how far you’d go in a large corporation for example.
Achievement has been associated with what occupations ?
Salesperson, a researcher, small business owner
Power motivation is associated with what occupations ?
Manager, Rabi, clergy, not much evidence but it also has been associated with being a teacher , therapist, journalist
Correlates of n power? (Positives)
- Clear evidence if you are high in power you will get involved in volunteering in organizations
- efforts to make community contributions
- effective leadership
- acquisition of prestige symbols
Correlates n power? Negatives
- Aggression both physically and verbally , these men tend to have more domestic problems, also evidence that they are more exploitative interpersonal relations
More excessive drinkers
Marriages to end in divorce
Aggressive in sexuality
Socialized power
To benefit others
Unsocialized and uncontrolled form of power ?
About personal power, here people are trying to get impact and influence to benefit the self
Power motivation add ons by prof , power can be valuable
Is a valuable thing, but only a certain kind of motivation that is valuable
Someone that is high in power motivation can make a huge difference for everyone in the community.
Example a mother high in power might get more involved in a child school and work to make the things better for all the kids there
Keep in mind this is the positive and socialized version of n power
Moderators of power motivation ?
Gender, social class, activity inhibition
Gender as a moderator of power motivation?
The negatives we saw earlier are only showing on the men side, power motivation seems more problematic among men but not so much among women
When men get the same responsibility training as women they have no negative correlates
David winter did the responsibility training research
In the sixties and seventies the female children would do lots of caretaking and babysitting and lots of things to help the moms around the house while boys didn’t do much
He hypothesized maybe it’s not the gender affecting this but the responsibility training
Peter Parker
Achievement motivated and then gets bitten by spider becomes power oriented
It is very important in order to have power to be responsibility oriented too
Social class as a second moderator of power motivation
Low SES men have more correlates with negative outcomes of n power, fight or flight constantly activated and over time affect the brain development most specifically self control
If you grew up in poor areas you have been daily with so much daily stress, that your fight or flight is activated all the time
Limits your Brian development, that is involved in planning and self control
Activity inhibition as a moderator of power motivation ?
Lots of the stories about the pictures have suggested inhibition
They developed a simple coding system , easiest to use, which measures how many times you use the word not, the negative in your stories
- Across a 1000 words some people will use the word not 20 times whereas others might use it zero times
- This may reflect our natural implicit tendency to inhibit our actions
- May have something to do with self control and might be something that can mitigate the way power motivation is being expressed
If you have a leader it would be very good if they have activity inhibition as well
Conscientiousness is related to these moderators
Conscientiousness as a moderator n power
As a moderator might be good or bad in n power , in order to know a person has a tendency for good or evil is if they have high power and no conscientiousness
Predicting managerial success the leadership motive profile (LMP)
Some managers are better than others so they came up with LMP, there are three things to look for which are associated with successful positive management :
McLean would say it is hard to inspire others and impact them if you don’t have the power motive. And if you have relatively High need for affiliation as a manager you can’t be worrying about whether likes you or not
High n power
Low n affiliation
High activity inhibition (high self control)
Studies only with men followed them for 25 years did this in the Us navy :
24 different level to go up the lather in navy
20 levels of leadership
Had people write imaginative stories
Coded their stories for the LMP profile and they tracked them overtime
They found that they could predict who was going to move up the ladder and who was not
Climbing the ladder in large organizations
Affiliation is different from intimacy
The need for intimacy is more about being preoccupied with others liking you and worrying and caring about their opinions about you and try to manage that and maintain your relationship
Did Obama had this LMP profile
- David winter stated that the scoring system could code for speech up you could know if someone was high on a motive just by hearing them talk
- Developed a new system that allows you to listen to someone speak and code for their motives
David winter very significant in political psychology
By coding inaugural speeches he is able to predict who is going to be a more or less successful president
brief scoring definitions of power imagery
Encode speeches for the king of imagery and how they are developed
There re the things that are coded for power motivation : strong vigorous actions that have an impact on others, convincing or persuading arousing strong feelings, really concerned about reputation or prestige
Coded all speeches of Obama and did a imagery of all three motives
- he is highest in power motivation
Donald trump is even higher than Obama
- achievement relatively low on most of his speeches
Donald trump is also high on achievement
Predicting presidential outcomes
Political scientists rank all presidents , Abraham and Franklin Roosevelt were are US greatest presidents of all time, but who they find rated greatness correlates with power motivation
Trump kicked everyone in administration , he is very impulsive and does what he is told not to do, not the greatest based on this even though he had high power motivation the only dif is self control and conscientiousness LEVELS
ACHIEVEMENT AMD HIHG POWER WITH NO SELF CONTROL IT CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS
Do Obama traits support his motives ?
High on social dominance , but not so on social vitality
High on conscientiousness and self control high power motivation
High power motive in women in particular
Should lead to socialize power
Extraversion in women it was good for them in their career
But low on e didn’t help in career impact even though women was high in power
Would this person be a successful president ?
N power
N affiliation
N achievement
Lacks self control
High extraversion extremely low agreeableness
Other factors
Narcissism and authoritarian
Hell no
How do motives and traits interacts ?
Low extraversion can inhibit expressing a motive throughout your life, some people were saying this is what happened with Obama , wrong and unfair, racism
Women have a problem with social dominance
Explicit sexism if a woman says something that’s assertive, it’s seen as nagging
