G. Turetskaya

The theoretical approaches to the problem of the fear of success and the history of this phenomenon investigation are presented. This feature considering as the peculiarity of female mentality is manifested as success avoiding. The last one is appeared as the result of anticipation of undesirable consequences of significant relations. The original strategy of fear of success investigation is given. The empirical study of the fear of success as the social-psychological phenomenon revealed its peculiarities in the sample of business women.