The Power Motive, Power, and Fear of Weakness

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Abstract
Among 85 male undergraduates, high need for power as measured by the 1968 Winter scoring system is shown to relate to high drinking frequency (p < .01), high alcohol consumption (p < .05), and taking the first drink at age 16 or less (p < .05); to the Disinhibition ("Swinger'") factor on Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (p < .05); to poor academic performance (p < .05); and to generate a regression equation with the California Psychological Inventory that suggests qualities of personal disorderliness and intellectual aggression. These findings, considered in terms of power motive theory, are seen as replicating earlier evidence that high n Power is maladaptie, voyeuristic and power avoidant.