ABSTRACT
In Chapter 8 an account of the development of self-worth protection was offered which pointed to the role of noncontingent evaluative feedback. This account was tentatively extended to the development of procrastination and impostor fears. Noncontingent evaluative feedback is feedback which at best, bears a tenuous relationship with actual performance, thereby excluding individuals from deciphering the ingredients which have brought about their success and diagnosing the cause(s) of their failure. In that chapter, it was suggested that key aspects of personality -- low self-concepts of ability, uncertain self-images, and rejection of success — along with noncontingent evaluative feedback fulfil conditions required for the development and maintenance of failureavoidant behaviours.
