Using the Twenty Item" Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Six Item" Extraversion and Neuroticism scales, item responses from 241 subjects were collected and intercorrelated. The resultant matrix was transformed to a matrix of correlations among the three scales. Manifest anxiety and neuroticism were found to be largely confounded and both were found…

Supported was the hypothesis that retardates classified as better workers can be significatly different from those classified as poor workers in the scale ratings provided by their supervisors. (Author)

The Affective Sensitivity Scale was administered in 16 master's level counseling students. A year later, each subject brought in a recorded audiotape with a client from his secondary school field setting. These tapes were rated on empathy, nonpossessive warmth, and genuineness on the Truax scales of Facilitative Interpersonal Functioning. A high…

This study examined the intercorrelations of four instruments (three self-report and one behavioral) at two points in time (before and after a course in counseling psychology). The test-retest reliabilities of all instruments were highly significant, but only on the behavioral test of empathic communication was there a change over time. (Author)

Several nonverbal behaviors of helpers in a small group were tallied and related to independent judgments of the helper made by observers and the person being helped. The low but significant correlations suggest that nonverbal behaviors are but one set of cues that lead to clients' first impressions of their helpers. (Author)

The validity and personality correlates of peer judgments of parole success were examined. Subjects judged as successes by their peers, in contrast to peer-judged failures, had significantly higher rates of parole success. Implications for application and research are noted. (Author)

The validity of the scales, based on an interaction model that rates the client response and the counselor behavior, was assessed by using interviews from two counselors, one trained to offer reinforcing counseling and the other trained to offer persuasive counseling. The mean rating for the two counselors on each scale was statistically…

The Interest Assessment Scales and the Omnibus Personality Inventory were administered to 2,458 junior college students enrolled in occupation oriented curricula. Multivariate analytical procedure indicated high relationship between the two instruments. However, some findings raise questions about the wisdom of attempting to use interest and…

Examined the dimensionality of the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Factors were identified and labeled as Mathematics Text Anxiety and Numerical Anxiety. Factor-derived scales were developed and correlated with five specific anxiety scales and an arithmetic test. (Author)

Analysis of the data indicated that the low self actualizing group had the highest rate of conditioning, while the high self actualizing individuals showed a nonsignificant gain in the rate of affective self disclosures during conditioning but were more resistant to extinction as compared to the low and the moderate groups. (Author)

The Affective Sensitivity Scale was responsive to experiences of a T group laboratory, as well as to experiences of less intensity but of longer duration (year long National Defense Education Act Counseling and Guidance Institutes). However, scores on the instrument did not change significantly as a result of retesting or a placebo treatment.…

Investigated the value of increasing a microcounseling trainee's exposure to positive modeling by having a supervisor cocounsel with trainee during the first of three practice interviews. Analysis of interviews revealed that cocounseling trainees achieved significantly higher ratings for each skill than did standard microcounseling trainees…

Graduate students rated counseling interviews using the Broverman Sex-Role Stereotype Questionnaire. Client sex was one factor and counselor sex was the other. Of the 37 items, 16 were significantly different on sex of the client. Counselors rated opposite-sexed clients as more deviant from traditional sex role stereotypes. (Author/BEF)

Explored the relationship between vocational needs and experiential factors and constructed a weighted biographical information form to predict vocational needs. Analysis showed the utility of this form as a measure of vocational needs. (Author/BEF)

Counselor ratings were not influenced by counselor gender or subject sex role. Counselor sex role affected the ratings, with both androgynous and feminine counselors rated higher than the masculine counselor. Incongruent androgynous and undifferentiated subjects were more willing to see androgynous and feminine sex-typed counselors. (Author)