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Fear of Success in School Age Males and Females, 1973

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Title Fear of Success in School Age Males and Females, 1973
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WRQ3QI
 
Creator Romer, Nancy
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This research was a replication of the behavioral and nonbehavioral aspects of Horner's fear of success work, using preadolescent males and females as participants. It aimed to determine at what point in chronological development motive-to-avoid-success imagery in projective stories was related to performance decrements in competitive situations, and to investigate sex-related differences in this relationship and in types of imagery expressed.




Participants were 386 white, middle-class students (196 males and 190 females) in the 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th grades in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Participants were volunteers from classes of those teachers who were interested in participating in the study.



The data were collected between November, 1972, and February, 1973. Five verbal projective story cues (Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cues adapted from Horner,1968) were given to students in their classrooms. Participants also performed a series of scrambled word tasks under five different experimental conditions: nonexplicit competitive group, competition against a group, competition against a same sex peer, competition against an opposite sex peer, and noncompetitive alone. Participants were given a modified version of the Broverman et al. (1972) Sex Role Questionnaire, and a 20-minute structured interview regarding future plans (i.e., college, marriage, career, etc.), parental expectations, siblings, friends, best things about the self, and females' attitudes toward women's liberation.




The Murray Research Archive holds typed Thematic Apperception Tests, original record paper data, and coding sheets. The Murray Archive also holds a 1979 follow-up of this sample (see Ratliff, 00555).
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Relation Ratliff, Elyse Sutherland, 2022, "Follow-Up Study on the Development of Achievement-Related Motives, 1979", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KWMWPT, Harvard Dataverse
 
Type field study, replication