The Huffington Post – Vicki Zakrzewski, Ph.D.
“According to UC Berkeley professor Martin Covington, the fear of failure is directly linked to your self-worth, or the belief that you are valuable as a person. As a result, Covington found that students will put themselves through unbelievable psychological machinations in order to avoid failure and maintain the sense that they are worthy — which, as all of us who have ever dealt with the fear of failure know, can have long-term consequences.”(more)