Examined effects of cultural mistrust on Black college students (N=120) expectations about counselor credibility and counselor competence and willingness to see someone like described counselor for counseling. Found subject mistrust level and counselor race interacted significantly on several dependent variables; highly mistrustful Blacks regarded…

Administered seven instruments measuring college students' (N=253) perceptions and expectations of counseling. Used factor analysis to identify six interpretable factors, three for perceptions and three for expectations with no overlap between perceptions and expectations. Recommends further research into effects of gender, age, race, culture,…

Project Transition screens, trains, and places welfare recipients in fast food restaurant jobs. Training focuses on employee responsibility for managers' expectations and on behavior that will raise those expectations of new employees. (SK)

A study examined the role of meaning, familiarity with the task, and sex-stereotypic personality disposition in college students' success expectancy. It found no evidence for sex-related personality disposition to lower success expectancy, suggesting a need to examine how meaning and familiarity can affect college students' success. (MSE)

A study was conducted to isolate monitoring of test performance from other forms of monitoring and determine the effect of taking a test on expectations about performance. Results were consistent with claims that developmental changes in self-regulation could be tied to developmental changes in monitoring of performance and predicting performance.…

Categorized types of consequences associated with corrective behavioral feedback messages anticipated by group members during first meeting of counseling group. Group members (N=286) wrote corrective feedback messages they would be unwilling to communicate in groups and completed form describing potential consequences of communicating corrective…

Evaluated older widows (N=95) at two months, six months, and one year following the death of their spouse. Found that expectancy of death was not related to adjustment to bereavement; widows who had rehearsed widowhood fared no better that widows who did not rehearse. (Author/ABL)

The study examined whether classroom context cues in videotapes showing a nonhandicapped and a learning disability expectancy would affect evaluation bias of 80 elementary-school teachers. Results suggest that teachers hold initial biases about the behavior of learning-disabled students but take into account the classroom context when rating…

Examined the role of interpersonal expectations in rejected children's social difficulties. Results indicated that rejected children can make better impressions on peers when they expect interpersonal success. (RH)

Basketball experts (N=28) responded to "rule- and norm-related behavior" questionnaire, assessing crisis relevance of behaviors which were against rules of situation and were either fair or unfair, called or not called by officials. Results revealed that officials' calls and fairness of violations substantially influenced diagnostic…

Returning women students (n=36) analyzed romance novels, becoming aware of how the genre privileges particular groups and values. They explored connections between the texts and their lives and recognized how cultural and social expectations are reflected in the novels and circumscribe their lives. (SK)

Investigates the connections between depression among elderly parents (n=388) and facets of the relationship between these parents and their adult children, including the exchange of assistance between generations, and the expectations older parents have for assistance from children. Results indicated that filial responsibility expectations are…

Probability terms were scaled by 3 methods as a result of a survey of undergraduate students (n=194): rank order, percentage estimate, and successive interval. Discusses implications for the selection and placement of probability terms on rating scales in the development of assessment instruments. (JPS)

Summarizes research aiming to identify factors that motivate service and manufacturing businesses to become partners with K-12 public schools. Uses telephone interview data gathered from 154 (out of 1,000) randomly selected Los Angeles County school-business partners. Top motivating factors were community support, business promotion, and support…

Role expectations, ways of learning, and styles of verbal and nonverbal interaction are culturally acquired. Adult educators bear responsibility for understanding the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction and conflict in teaching diverse groups. (SK)