The Place of Mania Among the Depressions from a Biological Standpoint

One hundred college women completed a situational story that dealt with a traditional feminine occupation, while another 100 women completed a story that dealt with a more nontraditional, masculine occupation. The stories were used to measure fear of success. All women furnished information on their college major, career aspirations, and year in school, and completed the Masculinity and Ascendency scales from the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey. Both two- and three-dimensional chi square tests of association were performed to determine the relationship between fear of success and other variables.

Results (p < .05) indicated that fear of success is greater toward a nontraditional occupation, especially for women of low ascendency, and fear of success is greater the closer women get to graduation.