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Reexamining the Relationships between Racial Identity, Cultural Mistrust, Help-Seeking Attitudes, and Preference for a Black Counselor
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Townes, Darryl L.; Chavez-Korell, Shannon; Cunningham, Nancy J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
The purpose of the present study was to examine the extent to which Black racial identity attitudes, cultural mistrust, and help-seeking attitudes predicted preference for a Black counselor in a sample of 168 African American adults. Participants were recruited from college and community settings in an urban, southern location in the United…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Race, Racial Identification, Measures (Individuals)
Appreciating Similarities and Valuing Differences: The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale.
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Miville, Marie L.; Gelso, Charles J.; Pannu, Raji; Liu, Will; Touradji, Pegah; Holloway, Pauline; Fuertes, Jairo – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1999
Describes results of study of a 45-item scale developed to measure the construct and administered to four separate samples. The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale significantly correlated in theoretically predicted ways with measures of racial identity, empathy, health narcissism, feminism, androgyny, homophobia, and dogmatism (the last…
Descriptors: College Students, Construct Validity, Cultural Differences, Discriminant Analysis
Holland Type as a Predictor of Benefit from Self-Help Career Counseling.
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Kivlighan, Dennis M., Jr.; Shapiro, Robert M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1987
Used Holland high-point code and Self-Directed Search scale scores to predict benefit from a self-help career counseling intervention for 52 students undecided as to career. Participants with realistic, investigative, or conventional high-point codes showed greater changes in vocational identity when compared with participants with artistic,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, College Students, Decision Making
Beyond the Uniformity Myth: A Comparison of Academically Successful and Unsuccessful Test-Anxious College Students.
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Brown, Steven D.; Nelson, Tamara L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1983
Studied factors that might differentially underlie test anxiety and academic performance of college students (N=72). Results revealed that high anxious students differed from low anxious students on traditional cognitive and somatic indicators of text anxiety but not on any measure of study or test-taking skills. (WAS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences