Motivationally distinct forms of child compliance, mutually positive affect, and maternal control were observed as correlates of internalization in 103 mother-toddler dyads. Found that children who shared positive affect with their mothers showed a high level of committed compliance and were also more internalized. Maternal "Do's" appeared more…

This article describes a new counseling resource that blends art and descriptors to facilitate interpersonal exploration. The OH cards game blends the spontaneity of games and the imagination of art to enhance self-awareness, facilitate communication and thereby empower individuals. A variety of implementation strategies using the game are…

Compared self-efficacy, interest congruence, and student commitment across indices of academic adjustment and career indecision for 98 undergraduates. Both commitment and self-efficacy were salient predictors of academic adjustment. Commitment also contributed the most variance in the explanation of one's major. Found different pattern in…

Investigated values of 36 patient-therapist dyads in psychotherapy. Found that patient assimilation of therapist values was positively correlated with therapist's outcome assessment, but not with other outcome measures. Patient-therapist dyads whose values were moderately similar showed most improvement, indicating that intermediate range of…

Work value correspondence and vocational interest congruence data were collected from 106 males and 119 females during and 1 year after a vocational assessment program. Work value correspondence accounted for a significant portion of differences in satisfaction. Results suggested that interests combined with work values provide more accurate…

Applies typology to counseling research that lends understanding to role that client-counselor similarity and difference may play in facilitating counseling effects. Asserts that considering this model in relation to existent research illustrates the value of such a typology both for defining relevant cultural differences and for understanding…

Correlational analysis of data from 134 undergraduates assessed the variance between career choice variables and decisional progress variables (vocational self-concept, commitment, readiness). Most significantly related to progress variables were exploration variables: amount of information and intended-systematic exploration. Congruence between…

Most tests of congruence in Holland's theory are flawed because they are cross-sectional, use samples of persons already in congruent environments, classify environment casually, fail to relate congruence to relevant aspects of work environments, and have not assessed environment accurately. The centrality of congruence makes the improvement of…

This paper illustrates a procedure for using the interest scores of occupational group members to locate occupations on Holland's hexagon. The procedure locates occupations throughout the hexagon--not just at the six points. The Holland types are Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), and Conventional (C).…

Six California community colleges were studied in an effort to develop a model for gathering, describing, and analyzing interview and document data derived from college governance personnel about the common organizational culture they share and then drawing conclusions about the "cultural congruence" that exists among them. The six…

Research on self-concept has usually focused on neutral or positive personality characteristics. To determine if negative beliefs about the self have schematic properities, 55 college students, assigned to one of four groups (shy schematics, shy aschematics, independent schematics, independent aschematics), based on a prescreening self-rating on…

Both external locus of control (i.e., a generalized expectancy that reinforcement is controlled by luck or fate instead of oneself) and internal locus of attribution (i.e., beliefs that success or failure result from an individual's actions rather than external causes) have been related to depression. To examine the relationship of attributions…

Although Holland's theory of vocational choice has received widespread attention since its formulation in 1959, there has been little research examining how well Holland's two-dimensional hexagon explains an individual's subjective occupational structure of the work world. A study was conducted to examine the degree to which judgments of…

Since Kagan (1963) developed interpersonal process recall more than 20 years ago, there has been continuing interest in the thought processes of practitioners. A case study approach was used to analyze the retrospections of a graduate student counselor and the cognitions of an experienced supervising psychologist about a counseling session with a…

As the American population continues to age, more and more adult children and their elderly parents are examining their beliefs about what constitutes appropriate filial behavior. This study was conducted to investigate filial responsibility expectations endorsed by a randomly selected sample of 144 elder parent-adult child pairs from the…