Psychological reports
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Psychological reports · Apr 1991
Comparative StudyAttitudes related to work of adolescents in the United Kingdom and Japan.
This study was designed to provide data for notions that differences in achievement motivation in different nations may contribute to differences in national rates of economic growth. The nations investigated were the United Kingdom and Japan as representatives of low and high rates of economic growth in the decades after the end of World War II. ⋯ Differences in career preference between the nations were also presented. The relationship between motivations and attitudes to work with career preference were examined for each nation.