Defining Hypercompetitiveness

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This paper examines Karen Horney's research work, "Neurotic Personality of our Time." The paper discusses Horney's methods, sample distribution and statistical analysis and then discusses several modes of biases within the research. Finally, the paper examines the battery of cognitive and personality tests that were used to verify the results of the research.

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"While Karen Horney spent much of her life examining personality issues such as hypercompetitiveness, researchers who fail to conduct a thorough literature review are setting the work up for criticism. Combine Horney's novel concept of hypercompetitiveness as a neurosis with other leading theorists, researchers would have strengthened their conclusions, and found further support. Besides Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow, there were other pioneers that would have stated that hypercompetitiveness was a learned behavior, and the students were only responding to environmental stimuli. However, just mentioning other viewpoints would have surrounded the results with other, well recognized ideas of similar issues."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Burckle, Michelle A., Ryckman, Richard M., & Gold, Joel A. (1999). Forms of Competitive Attitude and Achievement Orientation in Relation to Disordered Eating. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2284/is_11_40/ai_57533229
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• Horney, Karen. (1937). Neurotic Personality of our Time. New York. W.W. Norton.
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