Achievement motivation, attitudes toward sex roles, black militancy, and affective attachment among black female college students. 1971.

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Mednick, Martha T. Achievement motivation, attitudes toward sex roles, black militancy, and affective attachment among black female college students.

Achievement motivation, attitudes toward sex roles, black militancy, and affective attachment among black female college students. 1971.

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The major purposes of this research were (1) to compare fear of success (FOS) imagery in stories written by African-American women with level of FOS imagery in stories written by white women; (2) to compare FOS incidence in stories told by African-American women in 1971 with that reported for a similar group in 1968; and (3) to explore the relationship of the career goals of African-American college women to selected background, attitudinal, and motivational factors. The participants were 323 African-American and 81 white senior and sophomore women selected from five predominantly black colleges in the southeastern and middle Atlantic states. All were paid volunteers. Tests were administered in group settings at the various campuses. White women and African-American women were tested separately by examiners of their own race. Four verbal projective cues were administered to elicit FOS imagery. An additional questionnaire was administered to assess basic demographics, dimensions of career choice, and attitudes towards achievement in women. Also included in some questionnaires were an attachment scale measuring strength of current relationships, and a militancy scale assessing attitudes towards various aspects of militancy among African-Americans. All raw and some computer-accessible data are available.

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Harvard University, Murray Research Center