Characteristics of Achievement Consciousness

Primary motivation

Personal success that is socially recognized

Ultimate value

Power to be better than others and have them know it

Attitude towards life

Life is a finite game, so “get it while you can”

The most successful are the winners

Perception of death

Inevitable, biological process

End of personal existence

Self boundaries

At the skin

Perception of temporality

·    Past, compound present, and future

·    Past and future may be infinite

·    Past may or may not predict future

·    Oriented to the future as a place of setting personal goals, then working forward to meet them

Concept of other

·    People are similar in kind to subject, possessing their own point of view and interior life of highly variegated emotions, but not similar in the ability to achieve

·    Achievers will be rewarded with the good things in life (usually defined materially) over the less capable

·    More powerful, successful people are admired People without the measures of success important to the subject are discounted

·    Others may be exploited within socially acceptable limits

Locus of control

Internal—the self for self-esteem

Level of abstraction

·  Relativism

·  Dialectical relationships

·  Vantage point from a dialectic with the system, not entirely outside the system

·  Empiricism and positivism; materialism

·  Formal and Post-Formal Operations

·  Logical, analytical, algorithmic, inferential

Options for action

Infinite

Correct option

The one that secures the greatest personal advantage

Characteristics of

Affiliative Consciousness

Primary motivation

Belonging in close, harmonious relationships

Ultimate value

Being needed

Attitude toward life

·  Relationships are more important than any outcome

·  Enough love will surmount any problem

Perception of death

Death is not final at some level so long as living people hold the deceased in loving memory

Self boundaries

At the skin

Perception of temporality

·   Knowledge of past, present, and future

·   Past and future may be infinite

·   Past may or may not predict future

·   Orientation is compound present with indifference to the passage of time

Concept of other

·   People are similar in kind to subject, but possess own point of view and interior life of variegated emotions

·   Sharing information about one’s inner life with others will lead to a consensus-based community

·   Differences are superficial; everyone is fundamentally equal

·   Differences and conflict are threatening

·   People need to be helped by being in close relationships

Locus of control

External—Chosen like-minded peer groups

Level of abstraction

·   Relativism of knowledge

·   Dialectical relationships

·   Vantage point from a dialectic with the system, not entirely outside the system

·   Formal and post-Formal Operations, though this is not always evident

·   Holistic, intuitive, spatial, symbolic

Options for action

Infinite

Correct option

Consensus of peer group