Patterns of Expectations About Counseling: Relations to the Five-Factor Model of Personality

✍ Scribed by Michael Schaub; David M. Tokar

• Book ID: 102285857
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02438.x

✦ Synopsis

The authors sought to identify groups of students who differed in their patterns of expectations about counseling, and then to relate those groups to personality, as organized in the 5-factor model (FFM). Results of cluster analysis of 150 female and 96 male students' responses to the Expectations About Counseling-Brief form (EAC-B; H. E. A. Tinsley, 1982) questionnaire revealed 5 distinct clusters. Results of discriminant analysis identified 2 FFM personality functions (A Neuroticism and Closedness and Optimism) that meaningfully discriminated among the 5 clusters. A brief interpretation is offered of each cluster that integrates information based on EAC-B factor scores and the significant personality functions.