Studied 16 parent/adolescent cancer patient pairs on their knowledge and understanding of illness, medications and treatments, and their medication compliance. Found that adolescent responses closely matched those of their parents on all topics. Age was positively correlated with agreement for medication instructions. Findings have implications…

Holland's Self-Directed Search and NEO Five-Factor Inventory were completed by 146 males and 213 females. For males, Holland types were differentiated by the factors Openness and Extraversion; for females by Openness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness. Significant associations also appeared between these three factors and Prediger's Data/Ideas and…

Using simulated data a study comparing 10 congruence measures found none of the 3-letter Holland codes sensitive to differences among persons and incapable of distinguishing persons with like but out-of-order person-environment codes. A second study identified an interest congruence measure that is easier to calculate. (SK)

At 2 sites information was collected from 168 workers, and their 3-letter Holland work environment codes were crossed with 3 measures of person-environment congruence. All three measures were strongly intercorrelated. The way a job was coded had a significant effect on the calculation of congruence. (SK)

Teaching style is a predilection toward teaching behaviors and congruence between behaviors and beliefs. Educators can achieve congruence by reflecting on teaching choices and changing behaviors, beliefs, both, or neither. (Contains 30 references.) (SK)

What is reconciliation? A source of historical puzzlement and contemporary controversy over how to make history, this question asks after those words which constitute a beginning (again), that moment in which endless cycles of conflict give way to the hope for "unity in difference." Concerned with the dynamics of its operation, the present essay…

Two versions of a counselor self-efficacy (CSE) measure were administered to 110 prepracticum counselors: a general version, assessing perceived capability to perform basic helping skills and manage the session process with clients generally; and a client-specific version, tapping capability to perform the same behaviors with a specific, current…

In this study, the authors examined the stability of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (J. N. Butcher, W. G. Dahlstrom, J. R. Graham, A. Tellegen, & B. Kaemmer, 1989) code types in a sample of 94 injured workers with a mean test-retest interval of 21.3 months (SD = 14.1). Congruence rates for undefined code types were 34% for…

This study explores whether the brain can discriminate degrees of semantic congruency during wakefulness and sleep. Experiment 1 was conducted during wakefulness to test degrees of congruency by means of N400 amplitude. In Experiment 2, the same paradigm was applied to a different group of participants during natural night sleep. Stimuli were 108…

A majority of the congruence-satisfaction literature has used interest measures based on Holland's theory, although the measures' accuracy in predicting job satisfaction is questionable. Divergent findings among studies on occupational congruence-job satisfaction may be due to ineffective measures of congruence and job satisfaction and lack of…

Previous research has suggested that similarities and differences in specific personality factors are associated with differences in marital stability. Most findings were based on assessments of personality after marriage, thus confounding the effects of marriage on personality. This study was conducted to examine congruence between spouses'…

Social psychological research on attitude/belief similarity points to perceived similarity between people as leading to greater attraction and more favorable evaluations. When applied to the area of performance evaluations, organizational research on raters and ratees has focused primarily on the characteristics of the participants of the…

Intrinsic and extrinsic job characteristics were studied in relation to perceived real-ideal job characteristic congruence for a sample of male and female full-time lawyers (N=60). Results indicated that sex differences exist in perceived real-ideal congruence even when variables known to covary with sex in the work setting are controlled.…

The author critically examines the empirical base of Boshier's congruence model and related instruments, the Education Participation Scale and the Personality and Educational Environment Scale. He raises questions concerning the appropriateness of the model to explain participation and dropout from adult education. (Author/CH)

Examined the relationship between congruence and intrinsic job satisfaction for 1,688 young adults. A modest significant relationship was found. The congruence-satisfaction relationship was more pronounced for subjects meeting screens developed for three variables (interest clarity, career salience, and value placed on interesting work) suspected…