Multidimensional Fear of Failure Measurement: The Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory

By David E. Conroy, Jason P. Willow, J. Metzler. 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. David E. Conroy
2. A. Elliot
3. S. Sagar
4. E. Gracia
5. Chiao-Lin Nien
6. S. A. Zarrin
7. J. Duda
8. G. Cacciotti

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. A. Elliot
2. David E. Conroy
3. James C. Hayton
4. G. Cacciotti
5. J. Mitchell
6. J. Metzler
7. Scott Hofer
8. S. Sagar

In Social Psychology

1. J. Duda
2. Nikos Ntoumanis
3. S. Cumming
4. Ronald E. Smith
5. F. Smoll
6. C. Harwood
7. S. Jowett
8. A. Elliot

Citations in the corpus

• Fear and Entrepreneurship: A Review and Research Agenda (2015, unknown): “However, they refer to a more recent multidimensional conceptualization of fear of failure (Conroy et al. 2002).”
• A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship (2016, methodology): “This research defined fear of failure as the process of appraising threats in evaluative situations with the potential for failure and highlighted five different cognitive beliefs about the aversive consequences of failure (Conroy et al., 2002, 2003).”
• Beware of your teaching style: A school-year long investigation of controlling teaching and student motivational experiences (2018, background): “2 Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI; Conroy et al., 2002).”
• Development and Validation of the Motivational Climate Scale for Youth Sports (2008, background): “Avoidance motivation is traditionally indexed by performance anxiety or fear of failure measures (eg, Conroy Willow, & Metzler, 2002 ; Smith, Smoll, & Schutz, 1990 ).”
• Factorial Invariance and Latent Mean Stability of Performance Failure Appraisals (2003, methodology): “Additionally, scores have demonstrated strong external validity with theoretically similar and distinct constructs (Conroy, 2001; Conroy et al., 2002).”
• Antecedents and consequences of approach and avoidance achievement goals: A test of gender invariance (2008, methodology): “According to Conroy, Willow, and Metzler (2002), fear of failure is defined as a stable tendency to anticipate shame and humiliation following failure and it is held to not only contribute to an emphasis on avoidance forms of goals but also to be a precursor to the adoption of a…”
• Prediction of Academic Procrastination by Fear of Failure and Self-Regulation. (2020, methodology): “Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI) was developed by Conroy et al. (2002).”
• The Unique Psychological Meanings of Multidimensional Fears of Failing (2004, methodology): “Three previous studies revealed that PFAI scores have demonstrated acceptable factorial validity (including invariance across groups and time), temporal stability, and internal consistency (α ranges from .73 to .87 for the appraisal scales; Conroy, 2001; Conroy et al., 2002).”
• Fear of failure and achievement goals in sport: Addressing the issue of the chicken and the egg (2004, methodology): “Furthermore, these beliefs are sufficiently intercorrelated that a higher-order factor representing general FF can be modeled (Conroy et al ., 2002, 2003).”
• The dual nature of perfectionism in sports: relationships with emotion, motivation, and performance (2011, background): “The model differentiates five fears of failure: fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment, fear of devaluing one's self-estimate, fear of having an uncertain future, fear of important others losing interest, and fear of upsetting important others (Conroy, Willow, & Metzler, 2002 ).”