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ERIC Number: EJ182443
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Fear of Success and Task Difficulty: Effects on Graduate Students' Final Exam Performance
Griffore, Robert J.
Journal of Educational Psychology, 69, 5, 556-63, Oct 77
In an experiment using graduate students, fear of success and fear of failure were highly related factors, but neither interacted with item difficulty to affect test performance. Neither fear of failure nor fear of success influenced males or females differently. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Difficulty Level, Fear of Success, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Motivation, Performance Factors, Sex Differences
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Identifiers: Debilitating Anxiety Scale (Alpert and Haber); Fear of Failure; Fear of Success Questionnaire (Pappo); Fear of Success Scale (Zuckerman and Allison)