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ERIC Number: EJ224891
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1980-Feb
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Success Anxiety in Women: A Constructivist Interpretation of Its Source and Its Significance.
Sassen, Georgia
Harvard Educational Review, v50 n1 p13-24 Feb 1980
The competitive definition of success has fostered the popular notion that women are afraid to succeed. Recent research suggests that this anxiety is generated by the climate of competition, not success itself. Rather than training women to compete, the institutions and values that define success should be restructured. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Competition, Fear of Success, Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Social Science Research, Socialization, Success
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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