The Development of the Motivational Style Profilefor Children (MSP-C)

摘要

The Motivational Style Profile for Children (MSP-C) was designed tomeasure the dominances, orientations and saliences of motivational states inchildren. The results of reliability testing and factor analysis followed by parallelanalysis of the 50-item, 25-paired, and 15-paired versions for cultural samplessuggests the MSP-C may be a viable and reliable instrument for the measurement ofmotivational characteristics of children between 9 and 15 years of age. Significantcultural differences in motivational characteristics were found, in that Hong Kongchildren were more telic-, arousal avoiding-, and mastery-dominant compared to theBritish and French children, suggesting the predominant influence of the ChineseConfucian values. Future research is recommended to test the psychometricproperties of the 15-paired version of the measure for different cultural samples.