National motives and psychogenic death rates

The incidence of homicide will be associated with the need for achievement and the need for power (161).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman’s rank-order correlation	Not Supported	Not Significant	rho = -.16 (achievement), rho = .10 (power)	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Homicide Rates	Dependent	Offenses Against Life
Need For Achievement (in Folktales)	Independent	Social Personality, Verbal Arts, Literary Texts, Texts
Need For Power (in Folktales)	Independent	Literary Texts, Texts, Verbal Arts

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Lester, David	1968	The incidence of suicide will be associated with the need for achievement (161).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1968	"The incidence of suicide . . . was significantly correlated with the need for power . . ." (1260)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bacon, Margaret K.	1965	"Pressures toward achievement and self-reliance would be associated with frequent drunkenness" (38)	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bacon, Margaret K.	1965	"Pressures toward achievement and self reliance are . . . [negatively related] with ceremonial drinking" (41)	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Swanson, Guy E.	1971	"There is . . . a relationship [between constitutional systems] and scores on need achievement" (607)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author