A procedure for using the interest scores of occupational group members to locate (map) occupations on Holland's (1969, 1971) hexagon is described. The procedure locates occupations throughout the hexagon--not just at six points. Score profiles for Holland's six types were obtained from administration of the Unisex Edition of the ACT Interest…

Content analyses of case records and follow-up interviews with former clients of hospital social workers explored: (1) the primary social needs dealt with by the social workers; (2) clients' perceptions of their social needs during the hospitalization; (3) clients' perceptions of the social workers role, and satisfaction with social service.…

This study was conducted to examine the educational aspirations and course enrollment practices of a sample of California high school sophomores. In May 1988, 10th grade students (N=2,949) enrolled in 46 high schools in California completed questionnaires on background characteristics; educational aspirations and post-high school plans; career…

This study focused on three objectives: (1) to identify those activities which school counselors perceive to be their greatest time wasters; (2) to identify the percentage of time counselors believe they spend on each of the primary counselor job functions; and (3) to compare those perceptions with counselors' ideal allocation of their time.…

Past research has suggested that interpersonal influence in counseling is enhanced as clients perceive their counselors to be interpersonally attractive and similar to themselves. This study examined the relationship of specific verbal and nonverbal cues to perceived counselor attractiveness in a field setting, and explored the relation between…

Grinder and Bandler (1978) assert that if counselors communicate with their clients using verbal predicates that match the modality of their clients' primary representational system (PRS), it will be easier for the clients to understand the counselor and to feel that they are understood by the counselor. This study investigated this claim of a…

A review of the literature provides support for values as an important factor which impacts clients' psychotherapy outcome in several ways. Perceived initial values similarity between client and therapist was found to be significantly related to more favorable evaluations of the therapist and of therapy. Initial similarity on broader philosophical…

Self-serving biases in attribution have been widely explored; however, the effects of motivational factors on observers' causal attributions have been neglected in attribution research. To investigate these effects, observers' liking and perceived similarity toward a target person were manipulated. Subjects were 80 college students. The observer…

This investigation examined strategic and semantic aspects of the answers given by preschool children to class inclusion problems. The Piagetian logical formalism for class inclusion was contrasted with a new, problem processing formalism in three experiments. In experiment 1, it was found that 48 nursery school subjects nearly always performed…

Examined intimacy levels of college female pairs reporting no sexual contact between them, including pairs selected for high (N=25) and low disclosure (N=25). Results indicated that best predictor of intimate friendship was self-actualization. Perceived attitude similarity, but not actual attitude similarity, was also predictive of intimacy.…

Explored Holland's congruency construct and effect of sex and race on Self-Directed Search response patterns in 29 black and 31 white undergraduates or postgraduate students enrolled in a Medical Education Preparatory Program. Results clearly support congruency of sample's code with the criterion code of Holland's sample, providing support for…

Comments upon the emphases of selected papers in this special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior on person-environment, focusing on the need for substantial improvements in the measurement of the environment and the techniques for quantitatively comparing the fit between the person and the environment. (Author/KS)

Tested the assumption that a discriminatory pattern of appeal exists within an ethnic group, using a sample of 277 Black students. Results showed a definite preference pattern which revealed ethnic distance hierarchy, except for freshmen female students who also were less liberal in their preference of skin color. (JAC)

Tested Cohen's hypothesis that students who develop the school preferred information processing approach will perform better than other students. Using six instruments designed to identify preferred cognitive strategies, 135 students stratified by achievement were tested. Results suggested achievement is signficantly related to the acquisition of…

Several psychological theories are discussed in consideration of the question of what events or processes mediate the influence of environments (behavior settings) on behavior. (Author/MB)