الخوف من الفشل وعلاقته بالتفاؤل غير الواقعي لدى طلبة كلية العلوم التربوية في جامعة الزرقاء

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Objective: the study aimed to examine the relationship between fear of failure (FoF) and optimism bias (OB) amongst students of the educational sciences Faculty at Zarqa University.

Methodology: the study population consisted of all (461) educational sciences faculty students registered in the first semester of the 2017 / 2018 academic year.

A random sample of (100) out of the (461) male and female students were selected.

For the purpose of this study, two tools to measure FoF and OB were developed and checked for validity and reliability.

Findings: The study revealed that students suffered from FoF but were free from OB, and that there was no FoF-OB correlation.

Conclusion: proper anti-FoF student-friendly measures ought to be taken in light of various informative pertinent theories such as Lazarus’s cognitive motivational relational theory.