A counseling paradigm employed 2 actors role playing as clients, and 20 counselors. Independent variables were hostile or friendly client behavior and amount of counselor experience. There were 4 measures of the dependent variable of counselor anxiety: palmar sweating, eyeblink rate, client-actor estimates of counselor anxiety, and independent judgments of verbal anxiety of counselors' protocols. Results revealed that hostile client behavior led to significantly greater anxiety than friendly behavior. Amount of graduate training and counseling experience had little effect on the degree of counselor anxiety in either hostile or friendly interviews. Modification of some of the measures, lengthening of interviews, increasing group sizes, or finding more discriminate groups might have changed this last finding. Palmar sweating was of questionable utility as a measure of anxiety.
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