Traditional Achievement Values and Fear of Success in a Hearing-Impaired Population: A Disappearing Phenomenon

Two research projects designed to measure hearing-impaired college students' reactions to a successful stimulus person and to traditional views about successful men and women were conducted. The results of Study 1 indicated that subjects responded with stereotypic notions about a successful female stimulus person. However, a personality variable, Success Approach, is an important moderator of this tendency. In Study 2, hearing-impaired males showed significantly higher traditional values about achievement than hearing-impaired females. Other findings are discussed.