Although research supports a relationship between work and psychological factors, one area not studied is the relationship between preferred career value and psychological factors. This study investigated the relationship between preferred career values and psychological problems for individuals with disabilities. Career values have been shown to…

This paper presents a study whose purpose was to help determine whether group counseling is one effective means of helping juvenile offenders help themselves. It also compared the significance of the self-concept in incarcerated and nonincarcerated juvenile delinquents. Two experimental groups received eight weeks of group counseling once a week…

The Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) contains 100 items and 12 scales designed to assess self concept in three areas: total self esteem, self-criticism, and self-consistency. One hundred and seventeen females and three males, 75% of whom were black, attending a Work Incentive training program were administered the TSCS to examine its construct…

Discusses the effects of psychoeducational treatment on the self-concept of incarcerated sex offenders in a prison residential program. Uses the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale to assess the self-concept of sex offenders as they progressed through the program. Results suggest that offenders showed less defensiveness, more self-criticism, and greater…

The monograph reports on a number of studies relating the self-concept to performance in education and employment. Using the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS), experimenters divided subjects into two groups (successful/unsuccessful) and attempted to predict subjects' behavior and success on the basis of differences in the TSCS scores. All…