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FEAR OF SUCCESS IMAGERY BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE FEMALE ADOLESCENTS

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1986
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The problem investigated in this study was to determine whether significant differences exist between Black and White female adolescents' fear of success imagery. This study sought evidence bearing directly upon five major points: to compare the two groups of students in terms of (1) race, (2) family income, (3) birth order, (4) family size, and (5) age. The Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory, a twenty-seven item Fear of Success Scale was used. The sample consisted of 101 female adolescents. Of these, forty-eight were Black and fifty-three were White. All students were enrolled in grades nine through twelve at Santaluces High School, Lantana, Florida, during the 1985-86 school year. Significant differences were found to exist when socioeconomic status, family size and age were the variables under consideration. The coefficient alpha reliability for the Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory used in this study was only .55. Because this reliability was low, differences between groups on the demographic variable were less likely to have been detected than had a higher reliability measure been used. It is recommended that future research delve into interactions that might result from an analysis of variance using the significant variables of socioeconomic status, family size and age. Since this study found a significant difference contradicting previous research when age was the variable considered, it is also recommended that future research consider the age variable more intensely. Since an instrument that commands a higher reliability score may detect discrepancies that this instrument did not, it is recommended that future research utilize an instrument that yields sufficient reliability.
Title: FEAR OF SUCCESS IMAGERY BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE FEMALE ADOLESCENTS.
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Name(s): MCGEE, LYNNE KALAVSKY.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 117 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The problem investigated in this study was to determine whether significant differences exist between Black and White female adolescents' fear of success imagery. This study sought evidence bearing directly upon five major points: to compare the two groups of students in terms of (1) race, (2) family income, (3) birth order, (4) family size, and (5) age. The Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory, a twenty-seven item Fear of Success Scale was used. The sample consisted of 101 female adolescents. Of these, forty-eight were Black and fifty-three were White. All students were enrolled in grades nine through twelve at Santaluces High School, Lantana, Florida, during the 1985-86 school year. Significant differences were found to exist when socioeconomic status, family size and age were the variables under consideration. The coefficient alpha reliability for the Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory used in this study was only .55. Because this reliability was low, differences between groups on the demographic variable were less likely to have been detected than had a higher reliability measure been used. It is recommended that future research delve into interactions that might result from an analysis of variance using the significant variables of socioeconomic status, family size and age. Since this study found a significant difference contradicting previous research when age was the variable considered, it is also recommended that future research consider the age variable more intensely. Since an instrument that commands a higher reliability score may detect discrepancies that this instrument did not, it is recommended that future research utilize an instrument that yields sufficient reliability.
Identifier: 11889 (digitool), FADT11889 (IID), fau:8811 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.
College of Education
Subject(s): Fear of success
Teenage girls
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