The effectiveness of the Relationship Enhancement (RE) program (Guerney, 1987a) in increasing functional and basic levels of differentiation of self (Bowen, 1987a) was examined. Participants were 20 married couples who received training in relationship enhancement skills over six 2 1/2‐hour sessions. Measures of differentiation of self, quality of relationship, and anxiety were obtained before and after training and at follow‐up. The data show that significant increases in the functional and basic levels of differentiation of self occurred, a significant increase in the quality of relationship occurred, and significant negative correlations were found between differentiation of self and anxiety.
Counseled students whose problems were classified as vocational were compared with noncounseled students whose particular circumstances satisfied a definition for having a vocational problem. The comparisons were made on ability-achievement, personality, and socioeconomic variables. The noncounseled students were found to have a higher peer-independence orientation than the counseled students. The implication of this finding, that noncounselees appear to be more self-directive than the counselees, was discussed. A suggestion for the operation of vocational counseling services was considered. Finally, the results were reviewed in terms of their clarifying value regarding the matter of representativeness of counselees and noncounselees.
This study examined differences in nonoccupational interests between highand low-acquiescent subjects. High-acquiescent subjects showed a wider range of interests by scoring higher on the Diversity of Interests Scale of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and manifested an interest in "extrovert" activities by scoring lower on the Occupational Introversion-Extroversion Scale than low-acquiescent subjects. No significant differences were found between highand low-acquiescent subjects on the Academic Achievement and Occupational Level Scales. The results were related to previous findings by Berdie and by Armatas and Collister.
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