Fear of Success and Locus of Control in Young Women.

Midgley, Nina; Abrams, Marsha Stein

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Publication Date: 1974

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Fear of Success and Locus of Control in Young Women

Midgley, Nina; Abrams, Marsha Stein

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 5, 737, Oct 74

This study examines the relationship, in women, between the motive to avoid success and feelings of being controlled externally. The results suggest that achievement motivation is blocked or lowered by feelings of external control in the situation of arousal of achievement anxieties in young women. (Author/PC)

Descriptors: Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Controlled Environment, Females, Locus of Control, Motivation, Research Projects, Success

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