Investigated incidence of depression, using the Beck Depression Inventory, among community college students (n=79) over two semesters. Thirty-four percent of those surveyed during the first semester demonstrated some level of depression, with a higher percentage of males scoring between mild and severe depression. Thirty-one percent reported…

Surveyed graduate deans (n=63) and found academic advisement needs improvement in 3 areas: articulation of advisement guidelines, preparation of advisors, and support from graduate advisement in the university community. Forty-four percent stated they were satisfied with overall status of graduate advisement; even so, 64% reported faculty members…

Using NASPA membership directories (n=6,579 entries) as reference points, this longitudinal, descriptive study shows that women have assumed senior level administrative positions, but not in number proportional to the increase of women entering the field. Found women still occupy a disproportionate number of nurturing roles in student affairs.…

Addresses speech codes, admissions policies, and curriculum reform as areas of great debate and complication as they relate to political correctness (PC). Although its main goal has been to increase diversity awareness on campus, the author posits PC has taken a superficial approach to complex debates. (JBJ)

A study of elementary students (n=949) revealed some support for each of the hypotheses of Ginzberg, Roe, and Havinghurst. Results indicate that interests play the major role in both the selection and rejection of careers throughout childhood, that family configuration influenced occupational choice/no choice, and that identification with a…

Identified predictors that discriminated between nontraditional and traditional career aspirations in eighth-grade female students (n=930). Results indicate that educational aspirations, parental expectations, self-reported grade point averages, and science proficiency were the best discriminators between the groups, and that differences across…

Tests Super's model of career adaptability by examining the relationship between career development concerns, values, and role salience among cement factory workers (n=881). They responded to the Adult Career Concerns Inventory, the Values Inventory, and the Salience Inventory. Results supported both Super's model of career adaptation and his…

Examines high school students' selected work values in the United States, Norway, Finland, Canada, Australia, and France. Findings indicated that selected work values were more similar than dissimilar across countries and cultures, and that there is a higher degree of transnational agreement among girls than among their male peers. (JPS)

Describes how the logical positivist perspective on indecision as an objective phenomenon has evolved. Explains how constructivist counselors view indecision as clients' subjective attempts to give meaning to crisis points in their lives. This view permits a conceptualization of career counseling as a process of articulating a clients' life theme.…

Explores self-reported psychological adjustment for congruent, incongruent, and moderately congruent employed male ministers. Results indicate that the three minister groups varied in psychological adjustment as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Scales. Congruent ministers tend to be psychologically healthier than…

Evaluates a selection of school- and community-based programs (n=25) advocated in educational, psychological, and psychiatric journals over the past 5 years. While the programs reviewed support the likelihood that such interventions may be helpful, definitive conclusions that can be generalized to average high school students are still lacking.…

Investigates Erikson's theory that adolescent identity exploration is associated with a variety of symptoms. Results support Erikson's theory, indicating that adolescents who were actively engaged in identity exploration were more likely to produce a personality pattern characterized by self-doubt, confusion, disturbed thinking, impulsivity,…

Ninth-grade girls (n=157) rated their own experience of menarche and answered 4 open-ended questions. Responses suggested several ways that early preparation could be revised, and supported a conceptualization of menstrual education as a long-term, continuous process, beginning well before menarche and continuing long after. (JPS)

Describes a group program designed for high school students with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral disturbances, using Novaco's cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anger. Multiple techniques allowed multiply handicapped students to learn the physiology, triggers, and consequences of anger as well as to develop coping strategies for…

Results of a survey of students in the 6th through 12th grades (n=220) indicate that 57% of the students reported symptoms of depressed mood, 33% had thought of suicide, and 6% had attempted suicide. Fifty percent of the middle school students and 40% of the high school students were unaware of services in their school. Among the students with…