Relationships between acculturation and attitudes toward psychological help seeking were studied with 170 Asian international students. Results showed a significant relationship between levels of acculturation and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Significant correlations were found between students' levels of acculturation and stigma tolerance and confidence in mental health practitioners.La relacion entre la aculturacion y las actitudes hacia la busqueda de ayuda psicologica se estudio con 170 estudiantes internacionales de origen asiatico.Los resultados demostraron una relacion significante entre 10s niveles de aculturacion y las actitudes hacia la solicitacion de ayuda psicologica profesional. Correlaciones significantes se encontraron entre 10s niveles de aculturacion y la tolerancia hacia las estigmas de 10s estudiantes y la confianza que ellos les tienen a 10s medicos psiquiatricos.

The relationship between expertness and attractiveness in determining counselor influence in counseling was explored in two counseling analogue studies. One study tested the hypothesis that attractiveness and expertness combined additively such that attractive experts would be more influential than unattractive experts by comparing attractive and unattractive experts' influence at three opinion discrepancy levels. The second study tested the hypothesis that expertness masked the effects of attractiveness. Attractiveness would make no difference for experts but would define inexperts' influence. In both studies, college males rated their need for achievement (n Ach) before, following, and 1 week after a short interview exploring their n Ach. The interview ended with an interviewer attempt to influence subjects' n Ach ratings. Results failed to support the additive hypothesis and supported the masking hypothesis. Strong (1968) has suggested that a client's perception of his counselor as expert and attractive increases the extent his counselor can influence him. Perceived expertness can be defined as the client's belief that the counselor possesses information and means of interpreting information which allow the client to obtain valid conclusions about and to deal effectively with his problems. Perceived attractiveness is the client's "positive feelings about the counselor, liking and admiration for him, desire to gain his approval, and desire to become more similar to him [Schmidt & Strong, p. 348, 1971]." Perceived expertness has been shown to be an interpersonal influence which partially controls the extent to which a communicator can obtain opinion change in the recipients of his communications (

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