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. 2014 Aug 8;5:826. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00826

Table 2.

Sample size, number of single correlations, and number of studiesa from which data were extracted.

Motive domain Sample size Number of single correlations Number of studies
Overall 6151 167 56
Affiliation 4060 52 36
Achievement 5212 87 48
Power 2601 28 21

“Number of correlations” for the overall relationship is the sum of single correlations from the motive domains. A study could investigate several motives simultaneously, contributing to “sample size” and “number of studies” for more than one motive domain.

aStudies are independent samples, not papers.