Women and scientist: the yellow light on the ivory tower

The study purposes were to understand the background of women scientist (WS) in studying science, what motivate them to choose science and technology field, exploring their achievement, understanding their social support, exploring their problems. This research was qualitative case study approach. The key informant were four who come from Industrial Engineering and Mathematics and Science Faculty of Universitas Islam Indonesia. The data collection method used depth interviews, observation and documentation. The data test method used triangulation while analysis uses reduction-display-conclusion. The research found that WS studied science because of their interest of internal factor and the environment role of external factor. Their motives also gave benefit for others and increase their networking that is bit similar to McClelland’s Theory. WS had high excellent achievement in functional and structural positions, they received awards from their university until international award which are related to their research result. They also occupied important university structural position. They faced role conflict problem which similar to Greenhaus and Beutell (1985) Theory which increase their behavior changing. They faced marginalization because of their marital status and fear of success tendency which are losing cooking skills and having risk of not having friends which similar to Shaw and Costanzo (1982) Theory.

Fear Of Success in Women Working with The Banyumas Cultural Approach

Indonesia has a variety of cultures in each region. Javanese culture in general namely konco wingking and the Banyumas culture which is one of the parts of Java, namely cablaka, it contributes to the development of women careers because there are contradictions between the two cultures. This systematic review aims to examine the fear of success in women working with the Banyumas cultural approach. The inclusion and exclusion criteria like data that used in 2009-2019 time frame, data obtained from the site https://scholar.google.co.id, the data that used is related to fear of success, cablaka, and Javanese women. Based on the results of the literature review, it is understood that fear of success is an obstacle to women career development because of the fear of negative results obtained (loss of femininity, loss of social self-esteem, and loss of social rejection). Women who experience fear of success blame the culture as a set of internal hope. Javanese women has culture, the name is konco wingking. It is a caste differentiate between women and men, where men have a higher position. Cablaka culture is a culture of the spontaneity of the Banyumas community towards everything that happens in plain sight without being covered up. The orientation of Banyumas cultural values shows that there are five Banyumas human relations with the meaning of life, work, time, nature, and fellow humans.

Konflik Pekerjaan Keluarga dan Dukungan Sosial Keluarga dengan Fear of Success

Pandangan jika perempuan meraih kesuksesan akan dihadapkan pada ketakutan terhadap penolakan sosial, karena banyak anggapan kesuksesan sebagai hilangnya feminitas. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui pengaruh konflik pekerjaan-keluarga dan dukungan sosial keluarga terhadap fear of success. Subjek berjumlah 50 orang, Sampel penelitian ditentukan dengan teknik Purposive Sampling. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan Skala berjenis Skala Likert denga nilai Cronbach’s Alpha >0,8 kategori kuat. Analisa data menggunakan analisa regresi. Hasil menunjukan terdapat pengaruh konflik pekerjaan-keluarga dan dukungan sosial keluarga terhadap fear of success. Dengan nilai F sebesar 36,345 (p<0,01). Variabel predictor konflik pekerjaan-keluarga dan dukungan sosial keluarga dapat memprediksi fear of success sebesar 60,7% sedangkan sisanya dipengaruhi faktor lain sepeti derajat feminimitas, atribusi internal, situasi kompetisi kerja dan locus of control.

A Psychological Competence Assessment System for Trade Business Professionals Based on Economic Performance Indicators

The high demand for businesses to objectively assess their employees in order to make human resource decisions and further business development faces the issue of a lack of reliable staff assessment methodologies and the difficulty of interpreting the resulting assessment reports for practical use. Despite the fact that the competence approach to the assessment of specialists has been repeatedly considered by both domestic and foreign scientists, there is still no systematic psychological research aimed at establishing a link between the level of competence development of trade business specialists and the quantitative-qualitative sales indicator. The study focused on 32 sales managers from two commercial organisations in Moscow. Empirical data was obtained via test methods ‘Short Reference Test’ (V. N. Buzin, E. F. Vanderlik), ‘Eysenck Personality Inventory’, abridged version (H. J. Eysenck, G. J. Wilson, K. J. Jackson), questionnaire ‘Fear of Success, Need Achievement, and Fear of Failure’ (A. A. Rean), ‘Self-assessment of manager’s business and personal qualities’ (F. Fiedler), ‘Verbal creativity’ (S. Mednik), biographical method. As a result of the conducted research the connection between the level of development of communicative, socio-perceptual and auto-psychological competences and the effectiveness of professional activity of sales managers, measured by the number of sales for a certain period of time, has been revealed. The results of this study can be used in recruitment as well as for targeted investment in staff development and training to improve competencies and the financial performance of the company.

Academic Procrastination in Greek Higher Education: Shedding Light on a Darkened yet Critical Issue

Αcademic procrastination, characterized by self-regulation difficulties in delaying the start or completion of academic tasks (Ferrari, 2010), is widespread among university students. One of the most widely used measures of academic procrastination is Procrastination Assessment Scale Students (PASS, Solomon &Rotblum, 1984). However, there is adearth of research investigating its factorial structure using confirmatory factor analysis. Greek studies on academic procrastination are also scarce. The present study investigated academic procrastination among Greek university students (n = 865),as well as the factorial structure of PΑSS. Results from a CFA supported a one factor solution. Moreover, 40.5% of students were characterized as frequent procrastinators, towards reading for the exams, writing essays or attending classes. The reasons students gave for procrastinating were “fear of failure”, “task aversion”, “fear of success /peer pressure” and “lack of assertiveness/ time management skills”. No major, age, or gender differences in academic procrastination were detected. Finally, most students wished to participate in a future anti-procrastination program. Findings increase the ecological validity of current literature and could be potentially useful for counselors and researchers

Challenges that contribute to low participation of women in educational leadership at government primary schools, Ethiopia

The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges affecting women’s participation in educational leadership. The participants were 106 teachers and 24 school leaders. The respondents were selected using stratified random sampling, purposive sampling and comprehensive sampling methods. The findings from the study revealed that the perception of school leaders and teachers was high towards women leaders’ ability, skill and leadership competence. Despite their ability and competence, women are still largely underrepresented in the leadership of primary schools. There were several challenges at the self-image, organisational and societal levels preventing qualified women from ascending to junior positions in primary schools. At the self-image level, challenges such as women still acknowledging the world as masculine, women’s fear of balancing professional work and family responsibility, fear of success in achievement, lack of mentor and role models, reluctance of women to hold position of power, lack of awareness and knowledge of organisational culture were found to be deterring women from taking up leadership positions. In addition, cultural challenges such as cultural and religious sentiment with regard to women inferior to men, male prejudice reflecting stereotype women as less acceptant than men in society, misconception of the society about women’s roles, girls and boys being socialised by different roles and expectation in the society were seen as major hindrances of women’s participation in educational leadership in the study area. Keywords: Educational leadership, challenges, contribute, participation, primary school.

Konflik Peran Ganda Ditinjau daro Fear of Success pada Wanita yang Bekerja

Women who work and are married have a dual role conflict, this causes a fear of women to succeed in a working (fear of success). This study aims to examine the relationship of dual role conflict with fear of success in working women. Dual role conflict variables and fear of success are measured using a scale. The subjects of this study were 120 working women with accidental sampling. The analysis technique used in this study is quantitative analysis using correlation product moment karl pearson analysis (SPSS Version 20 for Windows). Based on the results of the study, it is known that dual role conflict has a positive relationship with fear of success in women who work. There is a significant positive correlation (r0.736 with sig <0.05) between the dual role conflict variable and the fear of success in women who work at 0,000 and the significance value is below / smaller than 0.05. this means that the higher the dual role conflict, the higher the fear of success in women who work and vice versa the lower the dual role conflict, the lower the fear of success in women who work. In the dual role conflict has the most moderate level category with a contribution of 55.84% and the most fear of success has a medium level category with a contribution of 45%.

Perbedaan Fear Of Success Ditinjau Dari Status Pernikahan Pada Wanita Karier

Wanita karier dapat mengalami fear of success yang cenderung disebabkan oleh beberapa faktor, salah satunya adalah status pernikahan yaitu menikah dan belum menikah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji adanya perbedaan fear of success antara dua kelompok. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah karyawati bank-bank yang berada di daerah Salatiga sebanyak 76 orang (38 menikah dan 38 belum menikah), dipilih dengan teknik accidental sampling. Data dikumpulkan dengan skala fear of success yang dibuat oleh peneliti berdasarkan aspek-aspek fear of success oleh Horner (dalam Berkowitz, 1980). Uji Hipotesis dilakukan dengan menggunakan t-test yang menunjukkan angka t sebesar 5,862 dengan signifikansi 0,000 (p lebih kecil dari 0,05). Hasil hipotesis ini diterima yakni ada perbedaan fear of success ditinjau dari status pernikahan pada wanita karier, dimana wanita yang sudah menikah memiliki fear of success lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan wanita belum menikah.Kata kunci: fear of success, status pernikahan, wanita karier.

Peculiarities of success performance of women in codependent relationship in a changing society

Dynamism in culture and personal value orientations leave their mark on such a socio-cultural phenomenon as success. It is classified as one of those concepts, the life meaning of which is clearly understood by everyday consciousness, but its psychological essence is sometimes not obvious due to the multifaceted nature of its meanings and relationships, expressed in its semantics. It was proved that codependent relationships affect the value-semantic sphere of the codependent, the content characteristics of the value-semantic sphere of the codependent change. Among other things, ideas about one's own life, one's future may change, the image of the I and the image of the world, the idea of success, change. The study involved 167 participants - women in codependent relationships. Research methods: methodology "Research of ideas about successful professional activity" (O. Yu. Klochkova); methodology "Motivation for success and fear of failure" (A. A. Rean); methodology "Self-assessment of manifestations of fear of success" (G.V. Turetskaya); scale of measuring codependency in relationships (L. Spann-D. Fisher, adapted by V.D. Moskalenko). Statistical analysis and data processing were performed using the «Microsoft Excel 7.0» и «SPSS» (22.0). Our comparative analysis of the data made it possible to reveal that there are significant differences in the indicators of ideas about success among women with a high and normal level of codependency, and there is also a relationship between the level of codependency and ideas about success.

Association among defense mechanisms, causes of procrastination and well- being; Gender differences

Background Defense mechanisms have been a central concept in the field of mental health and psychotherapy. Recently, there has been some research interest in defence mechanisms in empirical psychology. Causes of procrastination are shown to be related to defence mechanisms in terms of students’ dilatory behaviour. Furthermore, the causes of procrastination seem to affect students’ well-being. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of defence mechanisms and causes of procrastination on well-being, separately for each gender. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in Greece with 628 college students at the University of Ioannina (490 females and 138 males). Specially designed and validated instruments were used to record students’ sociodemographic characteristics, defence mechanisms (DM), causes of procrastination (CP) and well-being (WB). Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to investigate the effect of DM and CP on students’ WB separately for each gender. Results Students’ defence mechanisms and causes of procrastination had a statistically significant effect on their well-being. More specifically, female students with a lower percentage of fear of success/ influence of peers (p &lt; 0.001) and maladaptive defense style (p &lt; 0.001) as well as those with higher image-distorting (p &lt; 0.001), self-sacrificing (p = 0.004) and adaptive defense styles (p &lt; 0.001) seemed to have a significantly higher percentage of well-being. On the other hand, male students with a lower percentage of lack of duty/ tolerance of frustration (p = 0.039) and maladaptive style (p &lt; 0.001) but a higher percentage of image distorting (p &lt; 0.001) and adaptive defence styles (p &lt; 0.001) had a significantly higher percentage of well-being. Conclusions Students’ causes of academic procrastination in the combination with the use of defence mechanisms significantly affect their well-being despite, being differentiated according to their gender. Key messages Defense mechanisms play a crucial role in students’ adaptation at the university as well as in their mental health. Emphasis should be given on the design of intervention on students’ procrastination involving non-conscious processes and more structural elements of personality.