Ten handicapped subjects participated in a short-term behavioral training program to increase their verbal employment interview behaviors. Treatment consisted of a two hour training session using instruction, modeling, role-playing, behavioral rehearsal with performance feedback and social reinforcement. Verbal employment interview skills were behaviorally defined as: specific work statements, general work statements, personal statements, questioning statements and incomplete statements. Treatment was assessed by behavioral measurement of each subject's pre-, post- and follow-up performance during simulated unstructured interviews. Subjects' performance was compared with a reference group of college students. Also, assessment involved social validation ratings of subjects' performance by employers. / The results indicated increased appropriate and work-related statements during post-training and follow-up interviews. The rate of statements increased to a level comparable with the higher level of reference group subjects. Employers' ratings indicated the effectiveness of treatment by showing increased ratings of subjects during post-training interviews. / Subjects rated their level of anxiety after each interview and this data revealed no change in their anxiety levels during pre-, post-, and follow-up interviews. Satisfaction measures showed subjects' positive ratings of the training program helping them learn interview skills. / This study revealed that a short term behavioral training program enabled handicapped persons to improve their verbal interview behaviors to a level consistent with non-handicapped persons. Further, the study indicated verbal behaviors can be quantified by using direct observation procedures. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: B, page: 2236. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75154 |
| Contributors | BRISCOE, RICHARD VON., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 188 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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