The Moderating Effect of Sex on the Prediction of Job Satisfaction in the Public Sector

The author reports the results of his study examining whether sex moderates the relationship between general job satisfaction or dissatisfaction and the 25 job satisfaction factors of the Triple Audit Opinion Survey (TAOS). The author conducted Hierarchical Multiple Regression Covariance Analysis to test the homogeneity of regression (intercepts and slopes) between males and females using the five orthogonal factors derived from the 25 job satisfaction components of the TAOS as the independent variables and the general job satisfaction scores of the TAOS as the dependent variable.     

Counselor Licensure: Overkill?

Within a context of public and individual harm resulting from the administration of licensing acts by those very health-care practitioners in medicine, psychology, and marriage and family counseling committed to the betterment of society, this article argues that professional injustice can be decreased through both the implementation of state licensing and the alternative of national professional certification.     

Career and Educational Counseling Implications of Women's Life Experience Learning

This article summarizes the responses of 131 adult women to a questionnaire survey of their experiences and activities in homemaking, parenting, volunteer work, recreation, formal and nonformal education, and paid work. The results show that reentry women have had a wide variety of life experiences through which they have developed job-related skills. The findings also show the importance of counselor assistance in identifying nontraditional skills and in exploring how the interpersonal and managerial skills learned in unpaid work can aid women's career advancement.     

心理治療在慢性精神分裂症中的应用

心理治疗在精神分裂症中的应用曾經历曲折的过程。自从1933年胰島素昏迷、卞地查痙攣、电痙攣等一系列所謂“休克疗法”相继問世并大大提高精神分裂症的疗效以后,各国学者对精神分裂症的研究曾重点轉移到神經、內分泌、代謝障碍等方面的病理生理和生化問題上,并且获得了丰碩的成果,因而对心理治疗的兴趣就显著地減退了。然而目前神經、高級神經活动生理或生化机制并不能圓滿地解释病人所呈現的各种特殊的心理現象,所以心理动力学的問題随着神經生理和生化方面研究的深入发展,又引起人們的注     

学龄儿童理解寓言、比喻詞的年龄特点

一 儿童在入学后,經过教学的影响,不但逐漸掌握了一些知識,而且在掌握方式上也发生着变化,这点在思維活动的特点上表現得特别明显。在学前儿童的心理活动中,占主导地位的是感性认識,如果說感性认識也包合着低級思維,即所謂具体的、形象的思維,那么到学龄期,儿童开始能从对事物的外部現象的认識逐漸过渡到对事物內部联系的认識,即所謂抽象的、邏輯的思維。这一变化影响着儿童整个心理活动,使之发生一些质变。儿童     

技能訓練的几个問題

自从1958年以来,我們对工业生产中的技工培訓、創造革新和改进操作方法等問題进行了一些調查訪問和研究工作,涉及不同性貭的企业和不同工种,遇到了不少心理学問題。技能問題是其中之一。技工培訓的主要內容当然是技能訓练問題,而操作方法、劳动組織、劳动工具的任何改进,对于技能的掌握、改造和提高也都会发生一定影响,它們間接地联系到技能訓练問題。本文仅就我們所遇到的有关技能訓练的几个主要問題談談我們的做法和看法。     

Model Legislation for Licensed Professional Counselors

State legislated licensure for professional counselors is a critical aspect of the evolution of the counseling profession. Model licensure legislation will help promote a unified view of the profession. Model legislation for licensed professional counselors, along with a rationale for the content of said legislation, is presented.     

Recruiter-Applicant Differences in Perceptions of Extrinsic Rewards

Preferences of 602 graduating college seniors for 11 specific extrinsic rewards were compared with preference estimates given by 486 recruiters. Substantial group differences were found.     

Blacks' and Whites' Perceptions of Verbal Aggression

Eighty Black and 80 White undergraduate and graduate women were presented with a set of materials depicting two women as verbally aggressive. In a between-subjects design, each participant was presented with a set of materials depicting one of the following: two women who were (a) of the same race as the participant, (b) of a different race from the participant, or (c) a mixed racial pair. Each participant was asked to rate the randomly chosen identified aggressor on several variables related to aggression. Results of a 2×2×2 MANOVA (race of participant, race of identified aggressor, race of target) indicated a main effect for race of participant such that the White participants viewed all episodes as more aggressive than the Black participants. There were no other significant main effects or interactions.     

EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE WEIGHTING METHODS IN A POLICY- CAPTURING APPROACH TO JOB EVALUATION: A REVIEW AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

This research was designed to examine differences in the predictive power of alternative scale weighting methods in the context of job evaluation. Two different point-factor job evaluation instruments were used to evaluate 71 managerial and service jobs in a metropolitan university, and five different weighting models were compared in terms of predictive validity and salary classification. For the job evaluation system having high multicollinearity and validity concentration, no significant differences in accuracy were found among the weighting methods. However, in the more heterogeneous system, prediction models based upon unit weights, correlational weights, and multiple regression had significantly higher predictive validity than models based upon equal raw score weights or rational weights developed by a job evaluation committee. In addition, the weighting models differed substantially in terms of the predicted policy wages and classification structures.