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    Relationship between Fear of Success, Attribution Style and Self-esteem of Undergraduate StudentsRelationship between Fear of Success, Attribution Style and Self-esteem of Undergraduate Students
    (University of Management and Technology, 2017) Shahbaz, Farah
    The study investigated the relationship between Fear of Success (FOS), Attribution Style and Self-Esteem of undergraduate students. The objectives of the study were to explore the relationship between study variables to find if fear of success varies across genders, and to explore whether attribution style plays a mediating role in relationship between Fear of Success and Self-Esteem. The sample consisted of 104 students (97 men, 104 women) from a local university, preferably 2 years (5 to 8 semester) in BS and 3 and 4 semester in MSc who were selected following convenience sampling technique. Self-report data were collected on Fear of Success Scale (Zuckerman & Allison, 1976); Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) & Multidimensional-Multi-attribution Causality Scale (Lefcourt, 1979). Result revealed that no gender difference was found in boy and girls on FOS scores (t = .69, p > .48). Fear of Success was negatively correlated with self-esteem (r = -.19, p < .01) which meant that fear of success increased as self-esteem of the person decreased. Both Self-esteem and Fear of Success were more related to internal attribution style (r= -.14, p< .05 & r =.15, p <.05) than the external attribution style (r =-.22 , p < .01 & r= .10). Attribution style, both internal and external, failed to successfully mediate the relationship of Fear of success and self-esteem. Possibly cultural factors would explain why the proposed mediation hypothesis could not be supported.