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Peer reviewedPuryear, Gwendolyn Randall; Mednick, Martha Shuch – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
An examination of the fear of success in black college women at four campuses indicates that the proportion of fear of success found in Thematic Apperception Test imagery of black women is consistently lower than has been found in studies of such imagery of white women. (Author)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Behavioral Science Research, Black Students, College Students
Central American Refugees and U.S. High Schools. A Psychosocial Study of Motivation and Achievement.
Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – 1989
This ethnographic study documents and interprets key school, work, and family life issues in the lives and experiences of a sampling of recent immigrants from the war-torn Central American nations; and suggests a psychocultural theory of achievement motivation. Information was gathered from observation in two urban high schools, interviews with 50…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Aspiration, Attitude Measures
