Undergraduate students (N=287) completed an 82-item questionnaire about their expectations of counseling. The respondents' strongest expectations were of seeing an experienced, genuine, expert, and accepting counselor they could trust. Expectancies that the counselor would be understanding and directive were lower. Significant sex differences were…

Undergraduates in an economics course reported prior grade averages and their final exam predictions. Students rated the influence that ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck had on performance and completed an achievement motivation scale. Regression analyses provided support for the attribution model of achievement expectations. Sex…

Speakers' prespeech perceptions were elicited with reference to expected credibility, the consequences of delivering the speech, speech topic preferences, and message strategy intentions. Relationships are hypothesized among prespeech perceptions and trait and state speech anxiety. (JF)

The article focuses on teacher-student interaction as a factor in school failure and academic underachievement. (CL)

A variety of investigations suggest self-esteem is a significant variable in individual productive functioning and leadership effectiveness. A conceptual framework is presented that describes the importance of self-esteem, how it is affected in organization contexts, and what implications are apparent, for researchers, managers, and consultants.…

Concludes that open-minded persons attend to the content and implications of a message while close-minded persons attend to the surface quality of information and to the reputation of the source. (RL)

Differences in ratings of initial expectancy of success, perceived scholastic ability, and causal attributions were assessed for male and female high school students for a simulated academic test. As predicted, higher expectancies were found for high performance achievers and nontraditional females. (Author)

Children in kindergarten and first and second grades were presented sentences that were harmonious, neutral or contrary to their expectations. It was found that sentences contrary to expectation elicited more misinterpretation than did harmonious and neutral sentences and that case relations were assigned to agree with what was expected. (GO)

Teacher expectations affect the quality of teacher interactions with students, while the quantity of such interactions is unaffected. (Author/DEP)

Investigated the relation between preferences and expectations about counselors in a university student counseling service with 100 student clients before their initial intake session. Results were compared with those of an earlier study on nonclients. As predicted, preferences and expectations were more congruent in clients. (Author)

The expectations and limitations of market research in higher education are reviewed, including its functions and roles, foci and types, constraints of current practice, promising developments, and needs. (MSE)

Examined alcohol expectancies and drinking motives as correlates of alcohol involvement among adolescents at risk for future alcoholism. Expectancies of altered social behavior were associated with low-risk drinking. Expectancies of enhanced cognitive and motor functioning, of tension reduction, of deteriorated cognitive and behavioral…

Examined whether newly admitted nursing home patients' anticipated stresses of institutional care would relate to their experiences of stress one and three months later, and whether patients' experiences of stress would correspond to independent judgments of the quality of the nursing homes. Patients experienced the kinds of stresses they…

Examined relationship between income change in early 1980s, outlook that parents had about their general life situation, and extent to which adolescents expected to attain job success. Showed that income loss was associated with pessimistic life outlooks in fathers and mothers. Suggests that income loss is a stressor that may disrupt family…