Attitudes toward advisers and first-year academic progress were assessed for 223 freshman students at Idaho State University. Students advised by students had more positive attitudes toward their advisers and lower drop rates than those advised by faculty. No difference was observed for achieved GPA. Bases for evaluation are discussed. (Author)

Female (N = 4) interviewers, two black and two white, portrayed expert or referent role and attempted to influence 32 white subjects to use problemsolving processes and perform career-planning activities. Significant interactions of race and role were obtained such that black-expert and white-referent interviewers were most influential in attitude…

Examined type of situation and sex of the counselor in assertive training. Female subjects were given training in making complaints, small talk, and saying no to unreasonable requests. Significant improvement occurred. Subjects seen by a male counselor changed significantly more than subjects seen by a female counselor. (Author)

Researched hypothesis-testing strategies (HTSs) used by counselors. Undergraduates and counselors-in-training interacted with a computer-simulated client counselor, then counselor. Of the three HTSs (confirmatory, disconfirmatory, and unbiased), the unbiased HTS was preferred choice of HTS, was stable across time and with different feedback, and…

Observed Shostrom's (1966) psychotherapy demonstration films, rating the interpersonal behavior of Gloria or the therapist on a checklist inventory measure. Found significant differences in the interpersonal behaviors of the three therapists with Gloria, and of Gloria with them. Analyses of transactional patterns showed departures of Gloria's…

Tested two theoretical explanations for attraction-enhancing effects of counselor self-disclosure by constructing counseling analogue which varied the valence (positive or negative) of a counselor's disclosure and its relevance to client's presenting problem. Clients were 70 male college students. Results were mixed, supporting social exchange…

Counseling relationships were assessed through the social influence framework. Results indicate that counselor trustworthiness and client motivation contribute to counseling outcome. (Author)

Employed a 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 design to investigate predictions of social influence theory with respect to subjects' evaluations of the counselors. Multivariate and univariate analyses supported social influence theory. No gender differences were present. (Author/ABB)

The effects of two levels of counselor similarity and expertness and two types of clients' problems on perceptions of the counselor's competence were tested in this analogue study. Results indicated that suggestions of expertness led to higher evaluations of counselors for both problems. (Author)

In this survey, author finds that satisfied students are more willing to discuss problems with their residence hall counselors than less satisfied students and that females were more positive about the concept of residence counseling and often described their counselors differently than did males. (MB)

Examined interpersonal influence process within counseling including relationship between perceived counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness and client satisfaction; between client expectations on perceived counselor expertness, attractiveness, trustworthiness, and client satisfaction; and effects of actual counselor experience…

Investigated effects of pretherapy information about a feminist therapist's values and therapy orientation. Studied self-identified feminist clients' judgments of similarity to the therapist's values, confidence in the therapist's helpfulness, and willingness to see the therapist. Subjects were not as willing to see the explicitly feminist…

Investigated the relationship between age, sex, experience level, attitudes towards women, and dogmatism. Evaluated graduate students (N=544) counseling a female pseudoclient on career choice. Results indicated that counselor trainees did not demonstrate sexist behaviors in counseling. Findings suggest that nonsexist counseling is promoted by…

Self-referred college students registered for test-anxiety desensitization workshops. No difference was found in initial student participation based on assignment to groups led by same-sex or opposite-sex counselors. Continued student participation in the workshops was greater where the leader and student were the same sex. (Author)

Investigated subjects' conceptions of counselor characteristics and behaviors, and their subsequent perceptions following videotaped samples of counseling interactions. Results indicated that while subjects' perceptions of counselor characteristics were largely congruent, subjects' conceptions of counselor behaviors were much lower than their…