ATTITUDE ACHIEVEMENT

1. People who are very successful deserve all the rewards they get for their achievements.
2. Its good to see very successful people fail occasionally.
3. Very successful people often get too big for their boots.
4. People who are very successful in what they do are usually friendly and helpful to others.
5. At school it's probably better for students to be near the middle of the class than the very top student.
6. People shouldn't criticize or knock the very successful.
7. Very successful people who fall from the top usually deserve their fall from grace.
8. Those who are very successful ought to come down off their pedestals and be like other people
9. The very successful person should receive public recognition for his/her accomplishments
10. People who are very successful should be cut down to size
11. One should always respect the person at the top
12. One ought to be sympathetic to very successful people when they experience failure and fall from their very high positions
13. Very successful people sometimes need to be brought back a peg or two, even if they have done nothing wrong.
14. Society needs a lot of very high achievers
15. People who always do a lot better than others need to learn what it's like to fail
16. People who are right at the top usually deserve their high position
17. Its very important for society to support and encourage people who are very succesful
18. People who are very successful get too full of their own importance
19. Very successful people usually succeed at the expense of other people.
20. Very successful people who are at the top of their field are usually fun to be with.

This instrument was developed to measure attitudes toward the success and achievement of others. Emphasis is on the display of conspicuous success.

What were your responses to items 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, and 19? These answers indicate how you favor seeing very successful people fail. Your responses to the remaining ten items indicates the more you favor the reward of the very successful.

The results from this instrument can help you better understand why you react the way you do to others' success. It can also help you assess how important achievement is to your life goals.