Psychological Androgyny and Fear of Success
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 42 (3) , 757-758
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1978.42.3.757
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between psychological androgyny and fear of success for 128 female undergraduates who were administered the Bern Sex-role Inventory and a 29-item, self-report, fear of success scale. From performance on the inventory subjects were assigned to one of four sex-role categories: sex-typed, sex-reversed, androgynous, or indeterminate. Androgynous and sex-reversed females manifested significantly less fear of success than either sex-typed or indeterminate females. These findings suggest that psychological androgyny is associated with dealing effectively with possible perceived negative consequences of success.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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