Resumen

PADRON LOPEZ, Gladys Aracelys  y  SANCHEZ DE GALLARDO, Marhilde. The Effect of Motivation on Achievement and Emotional Intelligence in Psychological Growth. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.49, pp.141-158. ISSN 1315-9984.

Considering that the personal characteristics of individuals that make up organizations are key elements for managerial excellence, an applied, descriptive study was conducted of the quantitative correlational, observational, field type, with a non-experimental, trans-sectional, correlational-causal design. The general objective was to analyze the effect of motivation on achievement and emotional intelligence in psychological growth for people who are successful in their areas of action. Three Lickert-type instruments were designed and validated by expert judgment; the discriminatory power of the items and their reliability, estimated with the Alpha Cronbach co-efficient, produced r_tt=0.97, for success motivation, r_tt = 0.90 for emotional intelligence and r_tt=0.97 for pyschological growth. Results were processed using descriptive and inferential statistics, showing the three variables at a very high level. The relation between motivation for achievement and emotional intelligence with psychological growth is high and positive (R of 0.820), both expressing 67.3% of the total variation for psychological growth.

Palabras clave : Motivation for achievement; emotional intelligence; psychological growth.