Counseling Expectations Among Students in an Opportunity Program: Dispositional and Cultural Influences
✍ Scribed by Greta Winograd; Georgiana Shick Tryon
- Book ID
- 102284260
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 87
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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✦ Synopsis
College students (N = 102) from African American and Latino backgrounds who participated in an opportunity program completed H. E. A. Tinsley's (1982) Expectations About Counseling‐Brief Form (EAC‐B) and measures of self‐esteem, attributional style, problem‐solving appraisal, acculturation, and cultural congruity. Lower self‐esteem and a more depressive attributional style were linked to lower counseling expectations. All 3 dispositional variables were more strongly related to counseling expectations among students reporting higher levels of immersion in their ethnic group of origin. Implications for help‐seeking and the counseling relationship are discussed.