Fear of Success, Sex-Role Orientation, and Performance in Differing Experimental Conditions

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varda Konstam ◽  
Harry B. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
White Female ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Predicting Performance ◽  
Word Task ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Individual

The study was undertaken to explore the theoretical differences between Pappo and Horner, in regard to the significance of the variables of sex-role orientation of the individual and sex-role orientation of the task, in predicting performance of females high in fear of success. Subjects were 227 white female high school sophomores and juniors. It was hypochesized that with feedback of success on a task which was deemed sex-role inappropriate, individuals high in fear of success, who demonstrate a traditional sex-role orientation, would manifest smaller increments or larger decrements in performance between Scrambled Word Tasks II and I. Feedback of success-nonsuccess, sex-role orientation, and fear of success were not effective in predicting differences in performance on the Scrambled Word Task. The defensive patterns postulated by Pappo to be characteristic of the high fear of success individual were upheld.

scholarly journals Comments on the Empirical Investigation of Women Managers: Their Fears

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
Rosen john
Keyword(s):  
Women Managers ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Narrow Spectrum ◽  
Managerial Level ◽  
The Impact

In the October-December 1999 issue of Vikalpa (Vol 24, No 4), we had published an article titled “Fear of Success among Women Managers” by Sanghamitra Buddhapriya, which was an attempt to study the impact of managerial level and sex-role orientation on fear of success. In this rejoinder to her article, Rosen John discusses some of the shortcomings of the article especially with regard to the choice of sampling techniques selected and the narrow spectrum from which the respondents were chosen.

Impact of Maternal Employment on Daughters' Sex-Role Orientation and Fear of Success

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith D. Gilroy ◽  
Teresa M. Talierco ◽  
Roberta Steinbacher
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Employed Mothers

Maternal employment was related to scores on the Bem Sex-role Inventory as well as to fear of success in a sample of 90 high school females. Data indicated that the daughters of working mothers were significantly more androgynous and demonstrated less fear of success than did the daughters of non-working mothers. Results are discussed in terms of the modeling of a broad spectrum of sex-role behaviors by the employed mothers that are positively reflected in the daughters' self-concept.

Militancy and Black Women's Competitive Behavior in Competitive versus Noncompetitive Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Durham Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
White Male ◽  
White Female ◽  
Competitive Behavior ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Noncompetitive Condition

Fifty high militant and 50 low militant black women were assigned to one of five experimental conditions: noncompetitive, competition with black male confederates, competition with black female confederates, competition with white male confederates or competition with white female confederates. Subjects in competitive conditions worked for longer periods of time, produced more words from an anagram, and felt more self-confident than subjects in the noncompetitive condition. Subjects worked for longer periods of time with male confederates than with female confederates. High militants, in comparison to low militants, produced significantly more words on the anagram task, indicated a great number of pride, anger, and/or revenge responses and endorsed more masculinity items relative to femininity items on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory as being self-descriptive. Contrary to prediction, high militant black women competing with black men showed little evidence of fear of success.

COGNITIVE MEDIATION OF SEX-ROLE ORIENTATION

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Greg J. Neimeyer ◽  
Paul G. Banikiotes ◽  
Thomas V. Merluzzi
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Cognitive Mediation ◽  
The Individual

Seventy-two androgynous and sex-role stereotyped male undergraduates participated in a study which sought to explore the possible cognitive mediation of sex-role orientation. After reading a paragraph consisting of contrived thought listings of an individual considering the purchase of a car, Ss rated the individual on a set of 60 neutral and sex-typed bipolar constructs, each presented along 13-point Likert-type scales. It was predicted that: (1) Sex-role Stereotyped individuals would employ sex-typed constructs more frequently and more meaningfully (a) than they would utilize neutral constructs, and (b) than would their Androgynous counterparts; and (2) Androgynous individuals would employ neutral constructs more frequently and more meaningfully (a) than they would employ sex-typed constructs, and (b) than would their Sex-role Stereotyped counterparts. Results support all predictions with one exception: androgynous subjects employed sex-typed and neutral constructs with equal meaningfulness. Results were interpreted as lending support to the suggested cognitive mediation of sex-role orientation.

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