Principia

Principia CC — Need for Achievement

Principia (generated) · 2026 · Need for Achievement — a stable disposition to strive for success, master tasks, and attain a high standard of excellence

Principia CC Instrument · license CC0-1.0 · calibration pending
L1-generated (PRN-157): LLM-authored from construct + design rules + public-domain exemplars; passed the item-quality linter (≥B) + anti-derivative novelty gate. NOT yet empirically calibrated (PRN-158). Design-quality gated, not yet empirically validated — reliability and validity are earned from data. Pilot it via POST /api/v1/methods/item-calibration to calibrate.

Anatomy

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Fig. Principia CC — Need for Achievement → its items → the construct(s) they measure. Click a construct to follow it.

Measures this construct

Items

Each item shows its design grade (item-quality linter) and keying. Discrimination/difficulty appear once the instrument is calibrated on pilot data.

  1. I enjoy setting challenging goals for myself. grade A (positive-keyed)
  2. I often feel satisfied with just getting by. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  3. I strive to do my best in everything I undertake. grade A (positive-keyed)
  4. I avoid tasks that seem too difficult for me. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  5. I find it hard to care about my achievements. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  6. I take pride in overcoming obstacles to reach my goals. grade A (positive-keyed)
  7. I often feel like I could have done better. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  8. I am motivated to reach high standards in my work. grade A (positive-keyed)
  9. I prefer to stay within my comfort zone. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  10. I look for ways to improve my performance regularly. grade A (positive-keyed)
  11. I often feel indifferent about my level of success. grade B (reverse-keyed)

Reliability & validity

Reliability
Not recorded
Validity
Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

No canonical survey items linked to this instrument yet. Item-level dedup (PRN-050) derives canonical items from instruments that carry sample_items[]; coverage fills as the curator enriches instrument rows with item text.

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