The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and ...

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1994, Vol. 66, No. 5, 950-967 Copyright 1994 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 0022-3514/94 The work Preference inventory : Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations Teresa M. Amabile, Karl G. Hill, Beth A. Hennessey, and Elizabeth M. Tighe The work Preference inventory (WPI) is designed to assess individual differences in Intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Both the college student and the working adult versions aim to capture the major elements of Intrinsic motivation (self-determination, competence, task involve- ment, curiosity, enjoyment, and interest) and extrinsic motivation (concerns with competition, eval- uation, recognition, money or other tangible incentives, and constraint by others).

952 AMABILE, HILL, HENNESSEY, AND TIGHE behave out of freedom and self-investment. The Origin Climate Scale was developed on the basis of deCharms's theory, to assess the extent to which individuals feel like origins or pawns in a

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