The inventory measures achievement motivation considering its various components such as preference for difficult tasks, confidence in success, goal setting, competitiveness, persistence and others, thus enabling a profile diagnosis. It contains 170 items in total, constituting 17 scales. Scores can be also expressed in three factor scales: Self-Confidence, Ambition, and Self-Control.
The second revised edition of the LMI (2018) introduces a short version of the inventory or LMI-K. The short version contains only 30 items and the time to complete it is only 3 minutes. The short version of the examination allows to reliably diagnose the overall motivation of achievements with low effort and financial resources and in a short time. This is particularly important in research aimed at persons with a high rate of overall achievement motivation.
Another novelty in this edition of the LMI are chapters devoted to typological interpretation of scores. The assessment of the motivation of employees' achievements can be made on the basis of an estimate of the factor structure. Factor scores for the spheres of Self-Confidence, Ambition and Self-Control allow to determine new types of motivation of the examinee's achievements. Four types of achievement motivation for students and employees have been identified. Each type corresponds to a specific configuration of factors of a certain intensity
Materials:
- Kit (manual, 25 question sheets with instruction, 25 LMI-K question sheets with instruction, 25 keys, 25 LMI-K keys, 25 profile sheets)
- Manual – 2nd, revised edition (2018)
- Question sheets with instruction (25 copies)
- LMI-K question sheets with instruction (25 copies)
- Profile sheets (25 copies)
- Key
- LMI-K key
LMI-K
Achievement Motivation Inventory. Short version.
Short version includes 30 items and the administration time is 3 minutes. Examination is carried out in the way analogous to the full version. Points for answers are given in accordance with the key printed on a separate sheet.
LMI:
The tool can be applied in job counseling and selection, during decisions involving development prognosis, career advancement as well as in research.
LMI-K:
Achievement motivation matters whenever the person is required to make his/her own independent decisions, to lead other people, plan, predict, as well as in time and human ressources management. The LMI-K is a fast and low-cost (in terms of both money and work spent) way to assess achievement motivation. This is important especially when the purpose of the examination is to select persons with high index of the general achievement motivation.
Reliability
LMI:
High internal consistency of the general score, satisfactory consistency indices in most of the scales. Test-retest reliability also examined.
LMI-K:
Reliability of the Polish version understood in terms of internal consistency proved satisfactory – the Cronbach alpha was .87 (whereas in the original German version it was .94).
Validity
LMI:
Assessed using correlations with Achieving Tendency Test (MACH) scores and other psychological variables such as e. g. personality traits measured with the NEO-FFI, stress-coping styles, hope for success, also by comparing scores in several job groups, and of students from various departments.
LMI-K:
Convergent validity of the LMI-K was tested using the correlation of its scores (N = 33) with those on the Mehrabian Achievement Tendency Scale (1994) which measures similar theoretical construct. The correlation found out was high (r =.80) and similar to the one for the general score in the LMI full version.
Norms
LMI:
The inventory has separate norms for men and women, developed for four groups: high school students aged 15–19, students and professionally active adults aged 18–35, and 36–70. The normalization samples included over 5 thousand people.
LMI-K:
Separate T norms were developped for students aged 15–19, college and university students aged 18–28, professionally active persons aged 18–35 and 36–70, and (also separately) for males and females.
The test is also available as an online examination on the Epsilon Platform and as an option for entering and calculating scores from the paper-and-pencil version on the Epsilon Platform.
Uprawnienia do zakupu i stosowania danego testu zależą od jego kategorii, wyznaczonej zgodnie z kategoryzacją Komisji do Spraw Testów Psychologicznych działającej z ramienia Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego.
LMI jest narzędziem kategorii B2.
B2 – testy dla psychologów; dla innych specjalistów po ukończonym ogólnym szkoleniu z psychometrii zakończonym egzaminem, a następnie szkolenia z zakresu konkretnego testu (lub grupy podobnych testów)
Wymagane kwalifikacje:
- Ukończone studia magisterskie z psychologii – wymagane przedłożenie kopii dyplomu
LUB
- Ukończone dowolne studia wyższe magisterskie – wymagane przedłożenie kopii dyplomu
- ORAZ posiadanie certyfikatu ukończenia szkolenia i zaliczenia egzaminu z psychometrii wg programu zaakceptowanego przez PTP
- ORAZ ukończone szkolenie z zakresu konkretnego testu (lub grupy podobnych testów) – wymagane przedłożenie certyfikatu ukończenia szkolenia
- ORAZ praca z ludźmi w obszarze zawodowym, który stanowi uzasadnienie dla wyboru i stosowania narzędzia.
