RELATION OF FEAR OF SUCCESS TO SEX ROLE IDENTITY AND OTHER PERSONALITY VARIABLES.
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Title
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RELATION OF FEAR OF SUCCESS TO SEX ROLE IDENTITY AND OTHER PERSONALITY VARIABLES.
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Identifier
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AAI8302493
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identifier
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8302493
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Creator
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BELLINSON, JILL.
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Contributor
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Herbert Nechin
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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In a study of the relation between Fear of Success (FOS) and various personality variables, 200 college students were asked to supply information about their age, race, marital status, ordinal position in family, educational level, major in school, educational and occupational aspirations, and parental education and occupation. Subjects also completed a Bem Sex Role Inventory and wrote one Hornerian projective story in which they proposed a hypothetical future for a male or female protagonist successfully performing in a typically male-dominated (physics) or female-dominated (elementary education) graduate school field. Two methods of scoring were used for the projective stories: the present/absent system originally devised by Horner and the revised numerical system (Horner et al., 1973). The two methods were not significantly related to each other; the present/absent system seems to be the more sensitive. No relation was found between any of the demographic variables and FOS, using either scoring system. Neither sex of stimulus person nor sex-role-appropriateness of stimulus task is related to FOS. There is some relation of FOS to sex role identity: feminine subjects produce the most FOS imagery and androgynous subjects the least. Subjects who endorse a high degree of traits stereotypically associated with the opposite sex produce less FOS imagery than subjects who do not endorse these traits. Both these findings hold true only when the dichotomous present/absent scoring system is used; the numerical system showed no relation between FOS and any of the variables measured. The implications of this are discussed. The presence and importance of bizarre themes in some stories are mentioned. It is suggested that the methods of measuring and scoring both Fear of Success and sex role identity are not yet developed to their optimum usefulness.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
