“…In spite of Whiteley's (1969) statement, "It seems fruitless to continue this inquiry of particular traits" (p. 175), the search continues. Loesch, Crane, and Rucker (1978) attempted to correlate counselor self-disclosure, dogmatism, locus of control, Machiavellianism, academic aptitude, and sex of counselor trainees with counselor evaluation ratings and concluded that "judgments of some aspects of counselor trainee effectiveness are independent of some counselor trainee personality characteristics" (p. 202).…”