Examining relationships between academic success, fear of success and efficient studying habits of high school

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between academic success, fear of success and efficient studying habits of the students studying at high schools. In addition to that another purpose of this study is to examine whether the students? levels of fear of success and efficient studying habits differ according to gender, school kind and perceived parental attitude. Correlational scanning model, which holds place in general scanning models, was used in this research. The research group consisted of 662 students. There are 317 female and 345 male students attending at two general high school and one Anatolian high school in Kırıkkale. Fear of Success Scale (Kantarcıoğlu,2005), Studying Habits Inventory (Uluğ,1981) and Personal Information Form were used to collect data. Datas were analyzed by using Pearson Moments Correlation Co-efficient Technique and oneway variance analysis technique. Results of this study indicated that there is a negative significant correlation between academic success scores and fear of success of the high school students. In addition, results indicated that there is a negative significant correlation between efficient studying habits scores? and fear of success scores of the these students. It was observed that there is a positive and nonsignificant correlation between efficient studying habit scores and academic success scores of the high school students. The high school students? fear of success scores according to gender did not indicate a significant difference. But the scores of efficient studying of these students indicated a significant difference. Fear of success scores of the students indicated significant difference according to the kind of the schools they study at (general and anatolian high school). According to parent?s perceived attitudes (democratic, authoriterian and protective) it was observed that fear of success scores did not indicated a significant difference. The scores of efficient studying habits of high school students, according to gender, showed significant difference in favor of male students. It was observed that the scores of efficient studying habits of high school students, according to kinds of school (general and anatolian high schools) showed significant difference in favor of the Anatolian high school students. It was found that the scores of efficient studying habits of these students did not show significant difference according to parent?s perceived attitudes. The results were discussed around the literature related to the topic of the research.