Male Inexpressiveness

Dosser, David A.

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“…Within the multiple regression equation for counselor performance ratings, sex was found to contribute significantly to the prediction, with women tending to be rated higher than men once the other variables of the study had been taken into account. This finding, although not particularly great in magnitude, is consistent with previous research and theory indicating that women tend to respond to feelings more comfortably than do men, and to communicate more frequent and more accurate reflections of feeling (Dosser, 1982; Fuller, 1963; Robinson & Kinnier, 1985).…”

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Relationship of counselor self-talk and hypothesis formulation to performance level.

Morran

1986

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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A total of 40 counselors, ranging from novice trainees to experienced professionals, conducted 25-min counseling interviews with a female client, and then completed instruments measuring frequency of task facilitative and task distractive self-talk and quality of clinical hypothesis formulation. It was hypothesized that these measures of counselor internal dialogue would be predictive of counselor performance (clients' and trained raters' evaluations) once the effects of counselor gender, education level, and years of experience were accounted for. Cognitive variables were assessed, using standard multiple regression techniques, for their combined and unique contributions to the overall prediction equation. The major finding of the study was a positive relationship between higher quality clinical hypothesis formulation and higher levels of facilitative performance during counseling sessions.Counselor training research has increasingly emphasized cognitive processes during the past decade. This trend is reflective of a more global movement toward cognitive approaches in the behavioral sciences (Mahoney, 1974;Meichenbaum, 1977) and is viewed by many counselor educators and researchers as a positive stimulus for moving toward more comprehensive training models (Fuqua, Johnson, Anderson, & Newman, 1984; Kurpius, Benjamin, & Morran, 4985;Schmidt, 1979;Stone, 1980). They contend that traditional models have narrowly focused on behavioral skills and must be expanded to account for complex interrelationships between counselor trainee cognitive and behavioral processes.Within the counselor education field, cognitive-behavioral studies initially focused upon the relationship of trainee cognitive attributes to counseling performance. Such attributes as conceptual level (Goldberg, 1974;Holloway & Wolleat, 1980), cognitive style (Handley, 1982), and cognitive complexity (Lichtenberg & Heck, 1979) were found to be associated with various measures of counselor effectiveness. Studies of this nature have, however, been criticized because they assess relatively stable dimensions of cognition and reveal little about what actually occurs during the counseling session. Martin (1984), for example, has called for future investigations to obtain more direct data about specific, and presumably more changeable, cognitive operations in ecologically valid counseling contexts.Recent counselor training developments have begun to shift toward a focus on more specific and changeable aspects of counselor cognition. Based on such procedures as self-control (Goldfried & Merbaum, 1973), self-instruction (Meichenbaum, 1977), and mental imagery (Singer, 1974), I would like to thank Greg Brack for the great deal of help he provided on computer work. I would also like to thank Patti Parrett, Cathy Riggs, and Joyce Stout for their many hours of volunteered service in organizing and carrying out this study.

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Relationship of counselor self-talk and hypothesis formulation to performance level.

Morran

1986

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…The principals findings that women involved in role-play practice produced more reflection-of-feeling responses and that they tended to be more accurate than men are consistent with previous research and theory (Dosser, 1982). Interestingly, no such differences between men and women existed in the procedural check; both performed equally well.…”

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Sex and Order of Counseling Effects on Paired Role‐Play Practice

Robinson

Kinnier

1985

Couns Edu & Supervision

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In this study the effects of order of counseling and sex within counseling pairs were analyzed. A total of 51 graduate students, 35 women and 16 men, from introductory counseling classes were randomly assigned, according to their sex, to two levels of sex pairing and ordinal position. Multivariate analyses of variance and analyses of variance indicated that same sex or opposite sex pairing and ordinal position did not influence performances. Women, however, produced more reflection-of-feeling responses, and their responses tended to be more accurate than those of men. Also, women in ordinal Position 2 who had male partners in Position 1 outperformed women paired with women in Position 1. Results are discussed in reference to literature on modeling, sex differences, and role-play practice.Sharon E. Robinson is the chair and an associate professor, and Richard T. Kinnier is an assistant professor,

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Situational context of emotional expressiveness.

Dosser

Balswick²,

Halverson³

1983

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Based upon the analysis of 331 student responses to questionnaires and observation of 48 student behavioral performances, an assessment was made as to how emotional expressiveness is affected by sex of participant, type of feeling, participant role, and sex of best friend. Results indicated that across other situational factors, females were more expressive than males, persons were more expressive of positive emotions than of negative emotions, persons were , more expressive in the initiator role than in the respondent role, and persons were more expressive to opposite-sex rather than same-sex best friends. Differences between these findings and those of previous research were discussed. In addition, the results indicated that university students have difficulty expressing their emotions even under maximal performance conditions; implications for counselors working with this population are discussed.

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Male Inexpressiveness

Cited by 8 publications

References 61 publications

Relationship of counselor self-talk and hypothesis formulation to performance level.

Relationship of counselor self-talk and hypothesis formulation to performance level.

Sex and Order of Counseling Effects on Paired Role‐Play Practice

Situational context of emotional expressiveness.

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