Sex Roles

, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp 27–46 | Cite as

Fear of success: A personality trait or a response to occupational deviance and role overload?

  • Teresa Hargrave Bremer
  • Michele Andrisin Wittig
Article

Abstract

This study clarifies the extent to which individuals' fear-of-success scores may vary with the presence or absence of occupational deviance and/or role overload in stimulus materials describing situations of female competitive success. Four TAT-type verbal cues describing female competitive success in situations of presence or absence of occupational deviance and/or role overload were administered to 60 males and 60 females, ages 30 to 60. Horner and colleagues' revised scoring system was employed. Results of planned comparisons showing no effect of sex of participant on scores, but significant effects of deviance and overload, are interpreted as support for a situational as opposed to motive interpretation of expressed fear of success.

Keywords

Social Psychology Personality Trait Stimulus Material Plan Comparison Competitive Success 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Teresa Hargrave Bremer
    • 1
  • Michele Andrisin Wittig
    • 2
  1. 1.University of Southern CaliforniaUSA
  2. 2.Department of PsychologyCalifornia State UniversityNorthridge

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