The fear of success and its relationship to racial identity attitudes and achievement behavior among Black male college students.
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Title
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The fear of success and its relationship to racial identity attitudes and achievement behavior among Black male college students.
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Identifier
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AAI9707071
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identifier
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9707071
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Creator
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Campbell, David Barrington.
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Contributor
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Sponsor: Vera Paster
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Date
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1996
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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 | Psychology, Social | Psychology, Personality | Education, Educational Psychology | Black Studies
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Abstract
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This study investigates the relationship of the fear of success to racial identity attitudes and achievement behavior among Black male college students. Two measures of the fear of success (Horner's Cue Interpretation Task & Cohen's People Knowing Questionnaire (PKQ)) and one measure of Black racial identity attitudes (Helms & Parham's RIAS-B) were used. Achievement behavior was assessed by a study habits and attitudes inventory (Nixon & Frost, 1990) as well as by the actual grade point averages (GPA) of the 129 Black men who participated in this study.;Study habits were found to be significantly related to students' GPAs. As study habits improved, GPA increased. The PKQ fear of success showed a moderate negative relationship to study habits. Racial identity attitudes did not predict GPA but Internalized racial attitudes were significantly positively related to study habits. Also, preencounter and encounter attitudes demonstrated a significant and positive relationship to the fear of success, while internalized attitudes showed a significant and negative relationship to the fear of success.;Confused racial identity may be an aspect of the soil out of which success fears grow, and these success fears can contribute to the inhibition of achievement behavior as reflected in study habits and GPA.
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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.
