Fear of Success and Causal Attributions of Success and Failure in High School and College Students
O'connell, Agnes N.; Perez, Susan; O'connell, Agnes N.; Montclair State College; Perez, Susan; Montclair State College
Журнал:
The Journal of Psychology
Дата:
1982
Аннотация:
SummaryCollege males and females (N = 87) exhibited more Fear of Success (FOS) imagery to both gender-appropriate and gender-inappropriate stimulus cues than high school males and females (N = 88). No overall sex differences in incidence of FOS were observed. The gender-inappropriate male cue (Tom in nursing school) elicited more FOS than the gender-inappropriate female cue (Diane as law student) from college, but not from high school subjects. Subjects did not exhibit significantly more FOS to the gender-inappropriate female cue than to the gender-appropriate cue (Diane in nursing school). The presence of FOS to same-sex cues significantly affected attributions of success and failure on an anagrams task for college and high school males and females. The differences in attributions between males and females with FOS are interpreted in terms of maintaining self-concepts consistent with cultural prescriptions.
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