Achievemnet Orientations and Strategies  

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Nalkur, Priya G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 40 no. 6 (Nov. 2009), page 1012-1027.
Topik: Street Children; Achievement; Storytelling; Qualitative Analysis; East Africa
Fulltext: JCCP_40_06_1012.pdf (195.55KB)

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Cultures of achievement among street children (n=60), former street children (n=63), and school-going children (n=60), all of whom share the Kilimanjaro culture of Tanzania, are compared. The Thematic Apperception Test, a projective test known to evoke achievement concerns and originally designed for clinical psycho-diagnoses, was used to generate narratives for thematic analyses. The approach is child centered, allowing children to be imaginative under low-stress conditions. Analysis showed that each subculture had a unique achievement orientation and strategy. Among street children, emerging themes of heroic achievement orientation were tempered with paralytic strategies through which goals could not be realized. Former street children's emergent themes emphasized the presence of beneficial friendships and thus supportive achievement orientation, while strategy themes included exercising choices. School-going children showed deserved achievement orientation in which hard work leads to rewards and control strategy leads to both successful and detrimental outcomes. Themes demonstrate the relative ways in which children adapt to the "difficult life" that has become a common characterization of life in Kilimanjaro.

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