Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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S~aa of the major crgic patterns or dynamic factors for which Cattell
found evidence through his research are: Escape, with associated emotion
of fear; Hating, with associated emotion of sex; Seif-assertion, with
associated emotion of pride; Gregariousness, with associated emotion of
loneliness; Appeal, with assocfated emotion of despair; Exploration,
with associated emotfon of curiosity; Rest seeking, with associated
emotion of sleepiness or fatfgue; etc. Some of the major sentiment
patterns or dyuamlc factors for which he found evidence are: Self;
Superego; Career (levela of aspiration); Sports and games; Mechanical
Interest; etc.
Cattell and his assocfates then developed the experimental HotLvational
Analysis Test to measure the tension operative in the ergs and
sentiments that prior to nov was assessed only by rough means. Ten
dynamic factors were chosen which were felt, as a result of careful correlational
and factor analytic research, would be of greatest value to
the test users as being reprerentative, and comprehensive in coverage,
of adult motivations.
In this test, Cattell mearured the strength of each of these ten
dynamic factors by using forced-choice type of attitude-interest questions.
The particular attitude-interests he used were carefully chosen because
they were found to be substantially -related to and therefore best suited
to represent the factors concerned. For example, he found the folloving
attitudes and their motlvatfonal paradigms for the dynamic factor of
self-sentiment: ,
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1. Good reputation - - “1 want to maintain a good reputation
and a camon respect in my commmity.”
2. Norm1 sex - - - - “1 want a norms1 socially acceptable
relation to a person of the opposfte
sex.”
3. .Look after family - “I want to look after my family so that
it reaches approved social standards .‘I
4. Proficient career - “I want to be proficient in my career *”
5. Control impulses - “I want to keep my impulses under sufficient
and proper control.”
6. Self respect - - - “I want never to damage my sense of
self respect.”
The motivatioru!l strength of these attitude-interest paradigms for
each dynamic factor vere measured by using four different forced-choice
type devices or subtests. These subtests, which are a little unusual
in nature, are called: (1) Uses; (2) Estimates; (3) Paired Words; and
(4) Information. They are illustrated in the folloving chart.
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