Summary
This research was designed to extend the work of previous studies examining the fear of success and fear of appearing incompetent, particularly in relationship to how they are affected by attitudes toward women. The focus of this study was on African Americans. The sample was composed of 50 female and 42 male African Americans senior students. These individuals completed the Fear of Success Scale, the Fear of Appearing Incompetent Scale, and the Attitude Toward Women Scale. Significant differences were found between males and females on the Attitude Toward Women Scale as well at the Fear of Success and Fear of Appearing Incompetent Scales. When women with high Attitude Toward Women scores were compared with all men, there were moderate differences for Fear of Success and significant differences for Fear of Appearing Incompetent.
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Fear of Success and Fear of Appearing Incompetent: A Study of African American Women Business Aspirants
Introduction
One of the major functions of organizational management is to effectively adapt an organization to the effects of changing environmental factors impinging on the organization's human resources practices. One such factor that has received a great deal of attention in the Management literature is the rapidly changing composition or diversity of the United States workforce.As evidence of such increasing diversity, The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that in the period from 1998 to 2008 there will be an increase of 15.3% in the number of women in the civilian labor force. With regard to ethnic workforce diversity, the number of White women is expected to increase by 12.6% while African American women are expected to increase by 21.1% (Fullerton, 1999). In fact, Fullerton's figures showed that the participation rate of African Ame...See the full content of this document
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