Secondary School Coeducation and the Fears of Success and Failure: A Longitudinal Study, 1978

These data were collected to assess the long-term effects of secondary school coeducation. The study was a follow-up of Shinn's "Secondary School Coeducation and the Fear of Success and Failure" (Log# 00081), which investigated cross-sex competition by testing participants on fear of success and failure and on performance measures both before and after thier school became coeducational. By retesting Shinn's participants, Zeitlin assessed performance and the degree to which the negative effects of coeducation reported by Shinn were long-lasting. The sample consisted of 24 participants, 15 females and nine males; two males participated in both sessions of Shinn's study. Zeitlin's participants were either seniors in college, or one or two years out of college at the time of the follow-up, six years after the original data were collected. Instruments administered included four verbal Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cues, an abridged version of the Alpert-Haber Achievement Test, the Generation Anagram Performance measure, the Spence Personal Attitude Scale, and an extensive questionnaire to assess background and coping variables. The Murray Research Archive holds completed instruments and some numeric file data (25 of 56 variables). The Murray Archive also holds data from the original study sample (see Shinn, Log# 00081).