Community college students' vocational maturity levels were found to be similar to those of other adult groups. Additionally, no significant sex or grade-level differences were found, nor was vocational maturity significantly correlated with age. Significant racial group differences were found, however. Implications for personnel workers are…

Indices of university students' job knowledge and vocational preferences were not found to be significantly related. The theoretical and practical implications of this finding are discussed. (Author)

The Job Knowledge Survey (JKS) is a new instrument that measures job knowledge across two sets of dimensions. Results provide support for its validity. The JKS, therefore, appears to have strong potential as an effective measure of job knowledge. (Author)

The relationships between nonverbalized feelings and perceptions of the counseling relationship were investigated through the use of inprocess instrumentation. Frequencies of clients' nonverbalized feelings and counselors' perceptions of them were generally unrelated to the participants' perceptions of the counseling relationship. (Author)

This study was undertaken to develop an affective, small-group experience for helping children cope with death and to investigate the effectiveness of the experience in reducing children's anxieties about death. The generally positive results suggest that affective death education experiences such as this one should be made available to children.…

This article discusses the development, field test, and uses of the counseling-orientation scale (COS), a scale for assessing relative preferences for seven major counseling orientations. Procedures used to develop and validate it are presented. The COS field test, reliability, and normative data are described. (Author)

This study continues the search for meaningful relationships between counselor trainee characteristics and effectiveness. Self-disclosure, dogmatism, locus of control, Machiavellianism, academic aptitude, and sex of counselor trainees were investigated for relationships to effectiveness during practicum or internship. (Author)

Examined relationships between differences in counsellor trainee's perceived and measured need levels and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores and grade point averages (GPA). GRE scores were generally inversely related to differences in measured and perceived needs levels' higher GRE scores were associated with smaller differences. (Author)

This study was conducted on the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale (CERS). Ratings on 404 students from approximately 35 different supervisors were factor-analyzed using an oblique solution with rotation to simple loadings. It was concluded that the CERS has generally achieved the purposes intended by its authors. (Author)

Research has shown parents have strongly favored in loco parentis and students have not. This study found that, despite the increasing recognition of 18 as legal adulthood, there are still differences between attitudes of students and parents regarding the university's parental role, although both groups favored some university control. (Author)

Because the counseling profession places high value on counselors possessing accurate self-awareness, this study investigated the differences and relationships between counselor education students' self-perceived and measured needs levels. A sample of 107 counselor students estimated their needs levels and then completed the Personality Research…