Method

Personality and Drive 1 Method Participants Participants included 109 (83 female) students enrolled in the PSYC 204 class at Texas A&M University. Measures Drive was measured using the Personality Research Form developed by Jackson (1984). The format in use was sixteen questions that participants rated on a scale from one to five, with one being “strongly disagree” with the given statement and fivebeing “strongly agree.” This particular format focused primarily on need for achievement. It did not include questions that were not pertinent to need for achievement. Statementsgiven to the participants included, “I seldom set standards which are difficult for me to reach,” and “I enjoy difficult work.” Personality was measured using the mini-IPIP scales, also known as the 20 Big 5 Personality Characteristics (IPIP; Donnellan et al., 2006). This survey gave statements describing behaviors with which participants rated from “very inaccurate”—a one on the scale— down to “very accurate—a five. Statements in the scale included, “I like order,” and, “I get upset easily.” Procedure Data for this study was collected using a series of surveys distributed to our participants, who were given two hours to fill out the surveys, with all participants fillingout the same survey. There were no control or experimental groups.