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I Told God My Plans . . . A Research Memoir On Shame Associated With Academic Failure, Liana Elspeth Parks
I Told God My Plans . . . A Research Memoir On Shame Associated With Academic Failure, Liana Elspeth Parks
CUP Undergraduate Research
This thesis looks at the role of shame in academic failure in order to shed light on a mostly ignored topic. The author brings a new angle to shame research by considering past literature on shame and fear of failure (FoF) alongside their own experience of failure in Nursing school. Society believes that shame is a negative experience but researchers find that shame can help in growth and maturity if the person experiencing it is willing to talk about it (Brown, 2012). Combined with FoF, shame leads to a self-perpetuating spiral of failure and shame (McGregor and Elliot, 2005). The …