Fear of Academic Failure as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Series
New perspectives on learning and instruction
ISBN
978-1-138-67088-4
Type
book section
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Kyndt, Eva
Donche, Vincent
Trigwell, Keith
Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari
Abstract
A successful transition into Higher Education is influenced by a number of different factors. This chapter focuses upon the personal category which, among other things, includes students’ coping behaviour under pressure and their negotiation of failure. We examine whether students’ individual level of motivation, fear of failure, enjoyment and self-efficacy, assessed before the beginning of their studies, influences their probability of academic success at the end of the first year. Using a logistic regression we found out, that fear of failure have a significant moderate effect on study success and therefore may become a self-fulfilling-prophecy.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Book title
Higher education transitions : theory and research
Publisher
Routledge
Publisher place
London
Start page
13
End page
30
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
251988
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Name
9781138670891.jpg
Size
12.05 KB
Format
JPEG
Checksum (MD5)
818bd26b73065a4bdd553ac6f4c63b91