Weakened social support and tendencies to avoid failure: The intergenerational evolution of achievement motivation among Chinese college students

As important participants in the construction of society in the future, college students' motivation to achieve success has a potential impact on the development of society. Previous studies have mainly focused on the relationships between motivation to achieve success and other psychological variables at a micro-level, with little attention paid to the trends in the evolution of this motivation and the social factors that influence it. This study conducted a cross-sectional historical meta-analysis of studies using the Motivational Achievement Scale from 2000 to 2022. The aim was to examine the trends in the level of motivation to achieve success among college students (including both the desire for success and the avoidance of failure), as well as to explore its relationship with levels of social support. The results indicate that: (1...)