Abstract, The assumption that today’s German students are able to successfully combine synthesis achievement values and well-being values appears to be overly optimistic when regarded from the perspective of motivational psychology. The results of a qualitativequantitative interview study with 25 students indicate that achievement and well-being values may come into conflict in everyday life. Incentives for achievement and well-being rarely co-occur in the same action domains. Whereas the school context is dominated by achievement incentives, leisure time is dominated by well-being incentives. Since both achievement and well-being are appreciated by most students, they should be prone to experience frequent everyday action conflicts. The motivational characteristics of postdecisional action conflicts are described on the phenomenal level and their possible impairing effects for learning processes are pointed out. Finally, alternative forms of value synthesis, which might be realized more successfully, are discussed.

Supposer que les étudiants allemands d’aujourd’hui sont capable de bien réussir à combiner des valeurs de puissance et des valeurs de bien-être dans une sorte de synthèse de valeurs, semble trop optimiste en regardant d´une perspective de la psychologie motivationnel. Les résultats d’une investigation d’interview avec 25 étudiants indiquent que les valeurs de la puissance et du bien-être peuvent être au conflit dans la vie quotidienne. Les attraits pour la puissance et le bien-être ne paraissent pas aux mêmes domaines d’activité. Le domaine d’école est dominé des attraits de la puissance, tandis que les loisirs sont dominés des attraits du bien-être. Comme la majorité des étudiants apprécient toutes les deux valeurs, la puissance et le bien-être, ils devraient pencher à avoir des conflicts quotidiens. Les caractéristiques motivationnelles de conflits de l’action, après avoir pris la décision, sont décrit sur le niveau phénoménal et leurs effets apparemment entravé sur le procédé d’apprentissage sont indiqué. Finalement, des alternatives de la synthèse de valeur, qui pourraient être réalisé plus prospérée, étaient discutés.

Key words: Achievement, Conflict, Incentives, Values, Well-being.

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