A Primary Study on Going into the World and Leaving the World in Goal Striving

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A Primary Study on Going into the World and
Leaving the World in Goal Striving

• YANG Hongfei
• Department of Psychological and Behavioral
  Science Zhejiang University
• Hangzhou 310028

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1 Intoduction

• Going into the world and leaving the world
• are the essence of Chinese culture.

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• They are two relative independent factors in
• the motivational system.

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• They function in both general and domain-
• specific ways in goal-striving .

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• The present study is to develop a general scale
• of the two factors.

Focus on
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2 Methods

• 2.1 The development of primary scale
• 2.1.1 Open questionaire what kind of ideas and
  behaviors are going into the world and leaving
  the world? 100 college students were tested.

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• 2.1.2 Brain storming by the task force.
• 33 items for going into the world
• 33 items for leaving the world

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2.1.3 Discussion and modification 22 item for
going into the world 20 items for leaving the
world Likert 7-point scale was used1-strongly
disgree----7-strongly agree
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2.1.4 Criterion Validity TestScale with Life
Satisfaction(SWLS) by Diener(1984)Rosenberg
Self-Esteem Scale by Rosenberg(1967)Self-Discrip
tive Scale(SDS) by Knoblauch Falconer(1986)Big
-Five Personality Scale(BFPS) by Goldberg (1992)
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2.2The formal test 2.2.1 Subjects800 students
from 4 colleges 746 complete scales (effective
rate 93)Group 1 385 for EFAGroup 2 361 for
CFA
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Other 96 students 4-weeks test-retest91
complete scales (effective rate 95)2.2.2
SoftwareSPSS11.0 LISREL8.14
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3 Results3.1 First-order structure18 items
Factor 1 the sprit of hard struggle (6
items)Factor 2 minding the results (5 items)
Factor 3 usual mind (4 items)Factor 4 low
standards (3 items)
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CFA resultsPrimary Model ?2(131,N361)264.
25(p0.00),RMSEA0.052,GFI0.92,ECVI0.96,NFI0.81
,IFI0.89,NNFI0.88,CFI0.89,RMR0.066Modified
model move item 16 to factor 1?2(131,N361)263
.64(p0.00),RMSEA0.053,GFI0.92,ECVI0.95,NFI0.8
1,IFI0.89,NNFI0.88, CFI0.89,RMR0.067
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3.2 Second-order structureFactor AFactor
1Factor 2Factor BFactor 1Factor 2 Loadings
Factor A 0.722Factor B 0.828
NamingFactor A Going into the worldFactor B
Leaving the world
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3.3 Reliability
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3.4 Validity
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4 DiscussionThe procedures are rational and
effectiveThe structure fits the conceptual
framwork
Factor 1 Factor 3
Factor 2 Factor 4
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The reliability and validity reach the basic
requirments of psychometrics
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Future researchFactor 4 has only 3 items. Need
more.The scale need to be tested among other
subjects and modified For more infomation,
contact hongfeiy2004_at_126.com