A flat world? Comparative study of achievment motivation in the Czech republic and the United States
Abstract
The current study compared 349 Czech and 745 US nationals based on a complex model of achievement motivation. Our findings suggest that people in the two countries experience similar levels of fear when facing a difficult task, tend to set long-term goals, and are willing to exert large amount of effort to achieve a goal.
Yet, perhaps the long-term communist oppression in the Czech Republic instilled the tendency to attribute outcomes to external rather than internal forces within the Czech people.