This study investigates the effectiveness of the Vocational Exploration Group in helping high school students begin to evaluate personal characteristics, identify job alternatives, and seek information about those alternatives. The sample consisted of 63 high school students in a suburb of Denver. Groups met for two and one-half hours. (Author/JEL)

The effect of rehabilitation counselor attitudes and specific behaviors on the potential for rehabilitation of the person with cancer was studied. Data indicate intensive, short-term workshops may not facilitate positive attitude change but merely intensify the existing attitudes of the participants. (Author)

Graduating high school seniors (N=860) responded to 120 items of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank designed. It was hypothesized that preferences for occupations indicate personality and motivational differences among respondents. Canonical analysis revealed that interest measures and job-related motivational measures were significantly related…

A structured, personal-adjustment training program relying on verbal, braille, and motor modes of presentation was developed and evaluated. Analyses of pre-and postchanges indicated that the experimental clients increased significantly in self-esteem and tended to make greater progress in goal attainment. (Author)

Since people do vocationally who they are without recognizing themselves if not educated to do so, the author helps youths educationally become what they want to do. This study reports a strong association between vocational aspirations and the numbers of hours adolescents study per week. (Author)

Hyperactive children in a high-stimulation environment were significantly less active and performed an academically related task no worse than when placed in a low-stimulation environment. Understimulation rather than overstimulation apparently precipitates hyperactive behavior. (Author)

Research has shown parents have strongly favored in loco parentis and students have not. This study found that, despite the increasing recognition of 18 as legal adulthood, there are still differences between attitudes of students and parents regarding the university's parental role, although both groups favored some university control. (Author)

Community college students (N=31) took several personality tests and sex role questionnaires. Correlations among these instruments suggest that community college students in a conservative area who favor liberal sex roles tend to be loners, having a low opinion of both themselves and others. (Author)

The major concern of this study is changes in self-acceptance as related to different college classroom models. The specific research hypothesis is that self-acceptance increases as a function of the encounter classroom model. This was confirmed. Increased self-acceptance also appeared stable over time. (NG)

A semantic differential was used to measure the affective responses of vocationally committed male students in medicine, business, and engineering to occupational concepts representing the fields of medicine, business, engineering, the clergy, and law enforcement. It was found that the groups differed significantly in their affective responses to…

Sex-role stereotyping in the linguistic structure of Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) was examined. A revised SDS was constructed involving the removal of all masculine-toned terminology. The subjects did perceive the two inventories differently, with subjects completing the standard SDS viewing it as slightly less equitable. (Author)

A scale designed to measure and identify antecedents of educational-vocational indecision was administered to a variety of college student groups. Results indicate that the scale is reliable, appears to discriminate career-decided from career-undecided students, and is responsive to interventions designed to alleviate educational-vocational…

This study examined racial experimenter effects in counseling-like interviews employing the verbal operant-conditioning paradigm. The absence of significant differences in the experimenter-subject racial interaction suggests that race, per se, may not be the most important variable in the experimenter-subject (or counselor-client) relationship.…

Students (N=80) rated the interviewers on a counselor rating form. Only counselor role behavior significantly affected students' perceptions of interviewer attractiveness, while perceptions of expertness seemed to have been affected jointly by role and attire. The relative magnitude of expertness as compared to attractiveness ratings was…

A group of 41 learning disabled children were tested on the WISC-R. Two main questions were explored: (a) Do WISC-R tests assess "g" for learning disabled children to the same degree that they do for normal children? (b) Is there significantly more scatter among the tests for learning disabled than for normal youngsters? (Author)