This study presents information gathered from a follow-up survey of master's degree graduates in Counseling and Guidance from the years 1986, 1987, and 1988. Results are compared to a previous follow-up survey of graduates from the same program. Participants provided information via a questionnaire regarding demographics, current and past employment, credentialing, counseling clientele, program satisfaction, professional involvement, and preparation for client concerns. Results indicate that graduates are older than those who graduated 12-13 years ago with increasing numbers of women entering the field. Private practice, agencies, and hospitals have emerged as a significant employment setting. Today's graduates appear to be encountering a wider variety of client concerns and also appear to feel more prepared for those concerns than the graduates of 12-13 years ago. Conclusions and implications are drawn for the practitioners and the counselor preparation institution from which they graduated.

The primary purpose of this study was to identify resiliency factors evident in parentally bereaved children and adolescents identified as "holis-tically well." The population for this study consisted of 7 parentally bereaved children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 18 who were referred by the Children to Children support program for grieving youth. The instruments used in this study were specifically developed to assess holistic wellness and evidence of resiliency factors. The most prevalent resiliency factors evident in parentally bereaved children and adolescents identified as holistically well were: Constitutional Resiliency Factors of: social competence, positive personality characteristics, sense of purpose and hope, problem-solving skills, and autonomy. Resiliency Factors within the Home Environment of: caring and support, high parental expectations, and encouragement of participation in family. Resiliency Factors within the School Environment of: high academic expectations and caring and support.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4902. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

The present study attempted to investigate the interrelationships among Leisure Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, and Perceived Quality of Life. There is little evidence of research in the literature that specifically addresses the contributions of Leisure Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction to overall Perceived Quality of Life. This investigation is different in that it utilized different methods and employed a different combination of instruments in examining the specific contributions of Leisure Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, and a set of Demographic variables to overall Perceived Quality of Life. / The subjects consisted of 227 employees of an industrial plant engaged in the light manufacture of food products in the North Florida-South Georgia geographical area. The subjects consisted of 180 males (79.3%) and 47 (20.7%) females. Racially their composition was 170 whites (74.9%) and 57 blacks (25.1%). Over 60% of the subjects were in the 26-45 year old age category, while 78.9% were married. Seventy-four percent of the sample had a gross income from their job of $10,001-20,000 in 1981, while 52.4% had a high school education. There were 12 broad occupational levels of employees identified at the plant. they were as follows: executives, managers, supervisors, salesmen, bakers, shippers, truck drivers, clerical workers, mechanics, light machine operators, packers, and other workers. / The subjects were given a research packet containing a demographic questionnaire and three instruments to assess Leisure Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, and Perceived Quality of Life. The instruments utilized were the Leisure Satisfaction Scale (LSS), the Job Descriptive Index (JDI), and the Life Quality Inventory (QL). The questionnaire consisted of 143 items including the seven demographic items. All three instruments evidenced adequate validity and high reliability. The sample was not randomly drawn. Participation in the study was voluntary. / Pearson Product-Moment Correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis were the statistical methods employed to test the interrelationships and the contributions of the independent variables (Leisure Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, and a set of demographic variables) to the dependent variable (Perceived Quality of Life). The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Program was utilized to analyze all the data. / The results indicated a strong correlation between the overall scores on the Job Descriptive Index and the Life Quality Inventory. The multiple regression equation indicated that Job Satisfaction, as measured on the JDI, was the strongest predictor of overall QL scores, followed by the demographics put into the regression equation as dummies, and then followed by Leisure Satisfaction as measured on the LSS. / The main purpose of this descriptive study was to add baseline data to the body of knowledge in order to hypothesize and develop theoretical models of the Perceived Quality of Life. No attempt was made to generalize the results beyond the sample. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2512. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

This study compared the ratings of 21 male Myocardial Infarction victims with 24 male non victims regarding their behavior and attitudes related to selected proverbs. Both groups were comparable with respect to age, marital status, education, smoking habits, and exercise habits. Each group was administered the Rotan-Peterson Proverb Questionnaire composed of 35 proverbs that represented Type A, Type B and unclassified sayings according to a content analysis. Using a discriminate function analysis, the MI and Non MI groups responded differently to the total questionnaire and subsets of sayings in terms of frequency with which they behaved according to the sayings. There was no significant difference between the groups in terms of their attitudes toward their behavior relative to the proverbs. It was also found that there were five sayings in which the mean of the MI group was significantly different (p < .05) from the Non MIs. Four of the five were Type A sayings in terms of content. Implications of the findings are discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-10, Section: A, page: 4304. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

This study had several objectives: (1) To test whether or not postdivorce counseling was more effective than no counseling. (2) To determine if a structured group counseling modality or a structured individual counseling modality was more effective, as evaluated by increases in self-esteem and overall divorce adjustment. (3) To explore the role of selected contextual and demographic variables on divorce adjustment and self-esteem. / The sample was composed of subjects volunteering for postdivorce counseling. After stratifying for sex, 15 subjects were randomly assigned to group counseling; 10 to individual counseling and 12 to a "minimal contact" group. The sessions, both individual and group counseling, were conducted by the same two therapists, one male and one female. Together they served as a team of cotherapists when they met with the group, and individually they each counseled five subjects. The treatments groups met for an eight week period. A pretest-posttest design was employed with the Raschke Postdivorce Problems and Stress Scale used to measure divorce adjustment and the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale utilized to measure self-esteem. / Analysis of covariance, with pretest scores as the covariate, revealed no significant differences among the three experimental groups in self-esteem improvement, but did indicate that treatment groups improved significantly more than did the "minimal contact" group on divorce adjustment. No significant differences in effectiveness were discovered between individual and group counseling on divorce adjustment or self-esteem. However, a trend favoring individual counseling for subjects having higher self-esteem was discovered. / Multiple regression analysis revealed that "having a spouse who later insisted on divorce" and "length of separation" were the most important variables in explaining divorce adjustment variance. Similarly, "income" and "first marriage ending in divorce" were the most important variables in explaining self-esteem variance. Contextual variables played a more important role in explaining divorce adjustment variance than self-esteem variance. / This study provides additional support for the effectiveness of short-term structured, individual and group treatment models to facilitate divorce adjustment, although therapists' clinical judgments regarding the most appropriate intervention modality must be made on a basis other than that of their relative therapeutic effectiveness. The clinical preference in the literature for a group modality with short-term, structured treatment models to facilitate divorce adjustment was not supported in this study. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-12, Section: A, page: 5024. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

An analysis of existing theory, research, and practice in the fields both of psychosocial rehabilitation of chronic mental patients and of psychosocial interventions with older persons is presented in this study. Concepts and ideas are extracted from this literature and reformulated in a model of community-based psychosocial rehabilitation specifically tailored to the needs of older chronic mental patients. The model incorporates features of psychosocial rehabilitation such as the concept of a psychosocial center within a community, the importance of membership and of being needed, the expectation for maximum functioning, and the training, support, and opportunities for normalization necessary for such functioning. Companion concepts and themes from the gerontology literature are also included: the potential benefits of productivity and activity within the therapeutic milieu; the provision of opportunities for decision-making; the need for privacy and autonomy; and the importance of maximizing clients' feelings of control over their lives. Practical applications of the model are outlined, and implications for theory and practice are drawn. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-12, Section: A, page: 5025. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how mental health professionals perceive information in a budget reduction task and the influence of their perceptions on subsequent decision behavior. It was hypothesized that place of employment, level of employment, and the value placed upon information about a problem situation might all have an effect on choice behavior. Subjects (n = 95) were selected from Florida community mental health centers and State mental health hospitals. These mental health professionals were further classified into administrative, supervisory and direct service level positions. An instrument to measure the dependent variable, decision-behavior, was developed and pilot tested before being administered to the subjects. The instrument was a budget-reduction simulation task which presented a set of structured information that was conceptualized as falling into two information domains: rational-quantitative information and social-political information. Principal component analysis supported the existence of these information domains but indicated rational-quantitative information actually represented three underlying patterns of relationships: budget information, decision action plan information and agency descriptive/evaluative information. Place and level of employment were not found to account for a significant amount of the variance in decision-making behavior. The value placed upon the information presented in the budget reduction simulation did account for a significant amount of the variance in decision-making behavior (F(4, 90) = 2.67, p (LESSTHEQ) .04). It was also found that for community mental health staff, the higher the value placed on the budget information the greater the cut in the hospital budget; whereas, for hospital staff the higher the value placed on the budget information the lesser cut from the hospital budget. / This finding appears to indicate that as information becomes more neutral, it is easier for an individual to selectively attend or perceive information in a way consistent with his or her needs. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-09, Section: A, page: 2891. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

An exploratory study of 102 heterosexual men examined the relationship between one's sexrole concept as measured by the Personal Attributes Questionnaire, and indices of extramarital sexual (EMS) relationship frequency, intensity and duration. Three hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis was based upon the prediction of writers and theorists in the area of EMS behavior that the adoption of the traditional masculine sexrole (versus an androgynous or feminine sexrole) defined an approach to heterosexual relationships that encouraged sexual unfaithfulness. / The second hypothesis tested whether discrepancies between one's actual and ideal sexroles were related to EMS behavior, based upon the prediction that discrepant men would "overconform" to the male role through EMS behavior. A third hypothesis tested whether sexrole concept was related differentially to the kinds of propelling and constraining factors that may influence involvement in EMS relationships. / None of the three hypotheses were supported by the data. A principle components analysis of factors propelling and constraining involvement in EMS relationships revealed two propelling factors (desire for sexual variety, and desire for emotional affiliation) and one constraining factor (religious, familial, and marital forces). An additional analysis beyond the original hypotheses found that the desire for sexual variety equally propelled monogamous and nonmonogamous men. Nonmonogamous men were less constrained by religious, familial or marital "social control" forces than monogamous men, and were more propelled by the need for "emotional affiliation" than were monogamous men. The findings were interpreted to imply that nonmonogamous men were either seeking in the EMS relationships a quality of communication and/or intimacy not found in their marriages, or, rationalizing their EMS activities due to intrapsychic conflicts over intimacy and commitment. The overall effect may be that of reducing the influence and salience of religious and familial constraints, thus making EMS more likely. / The overall results of the study suggest that EMS results from the interaction of personality and environmental-context factors, rather than the result of specific personality dimensions such as sexrole or sexrole discrepancy alone. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: A, page: 2044. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

Motivated by literature suggesting there exists a morally antithetical lifestyle in this culture, the present study was conducted to determine whether there are any differences in the relative adherence to a particular morality or level of moral judgment development between subjects representing traditional and non-traditional lifestyles. An extensive demographic questionnaire, the Egoism Scale, and the Defining Issues Test were distributed to a non-random sample of 47 first-time married and 48 cohabiting males and females. Minimum length of time together was set at two months. Statistical formulations were conducted by means of ANOVA's and the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient measuring differences between the above-mentioned variables and marital status and sex. A descriptive analysis of the demographic data was also recorded. The results of all the analyses showed no significant differences between married and cohabiting individuals for either their moral affiliation or quality of cognitive moral reasoning. Biasing effects were discussed with regard to instrument construct, sample procurement, and demand characteristics. Further reference was made to how changing social norms and mores affected the outcome of this research. Implications for counselors and future research recommendations which might increase significant result probability were also offered. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-08, Section: A, page: 2357. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.