Male and female college students and their parents responded to items dealing with social issues. Parents were more conservative on 21 of the 24 items. Sex differences were significant for seven items. The generation gap was greatest for items closest to the daily lives of the respondents and may be both an expression of and a contributor to…

The relationship between counselor social interest and three dimensions of counseling effectiveness was examined. Students (N=98) and counselors (N=8) at a university counseling center participated. The counselor's social interest score was significantly related to the client's scores on satisfaction, self-acceptance, and sociability. Implications…

Rapport is difficult to achieve, especially for white counselors relating to black clients. It is generally easier to establish a working relationship with a colored, Southern female than it is with a Negro or black urban male. The curriculum must be reworked to help counselors learn to relate more adequately to racial minorities. Originally…

This study sought to determine whether subjects who rated themselves for guidance (assumed not to be influenced by social desirability) would rate themselves differently from subjects who rated themselves for science (expected to be influenced by social desirability). (Author)

The results demonstrated that self concept was significently associated with vocational maturity and indicated self-concept and feminine role concept of own self are useful in predicting vocational maturity. The more the girl viewed her role as being liberal, the higher was her level of vocational maturity. (Author)

Attitude toward marijuana shifted from strongly negative to strongly positive as frequency of marijuana use increased. With frequency of use controlled, attitude toward marijuana was even more favorable when other drugs had been tried, and also among students who were religiously inactive. (Author)

College students perceive a great difference between the (stereotyped) attitude of the average man'' and average woman'' toward the role of women in society. The average man was seen as viewing women in a more traditional manner than the average woman. The interaction between sex of respondent and stereotype sex indicated that female respondents…

The interrelationships among locus of control, attitudes toward the poor, attitudes toward the supervisor, job satisfaction, and the performance ratings of practicing rehabilitation counselors were studied. Counselors (N=90) were surveyed with attitude questionnaires. Internally oriented counselors received higher performance ratings, and had…

Four studies on the development and validation of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale for Heterosexuals (LGB-KASH) were conducted. Exploratory factor analysis of an initial item pool yielded 5 factors assessing internalized affirmativeness, civil rights attitudes, knowledge, religious conflict, and hate--indicating that…

This study tested R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett's (1994) model of career choice with 364 Mexican American adolescent women. Path analyses were run to determine the influence of contextual and social cognitive variables on career aspiration, career choice prestige, and traditionality. Partial support for the model was evidenced as…