Procedia - Social And Behavioral Sciences

pISSN : 1877-0428

Publisher : Elsevier BV

University students’ fear of success from the perspective of positive psychology

The aim of this study was to examine university students’ fear of success from the perspective of positive psychology. Two objectives were addressed: first, analyzing the relation between fear of success, optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and search for meaning in life; second, exploring the variance of the fear of more...


Affective tendencies in embarrassing situations and academic cheating behavior

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between affective tendencies in embarrassing situations and cheating behavior in a sample of adolescents. Two objectives were addressed: first, exploring the relationship between cheating behavior and shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, externalization, and detachment; second, analyzing the mediating role of detachment more...