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Ward, Colleen – 1976
The motive to avoid success (M-S) is a stable personality disposition acquired early in life in conjunction with sex role standards which acts as an inhibiting factor in achievement motivation. Horner (1968) postulates that many women experience anxiety in competitive situations and learn to fear success because of its incongruence with the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Theories, Failure, Fear
Download full textRohner, Ronald P. – 1977
Guided by specific theoretical and methodological points of view--the phylogenetic perspective and the universalistic approach respectively--this paper reports on a worldwide study of the antecedents and effects of parental acceptance and rejection. Parental acceptance-rejection theory postulates that rejected children throughout our species share…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Neglect
