The effect of behavioral counseling in group and individual settings on information-seeking behavior.

Abstract

192 Grade 11 pupils were randomly assigned to individual and group counseling settings in which the following 4 procedures were used by the special counselors: (a) reinforcement of verbal information-seeking behavior, (b) presentation of a tape-recorded model interview followed by reinforcement counseling, (c) presentation of film or filmstrip plus discussion as a control procedure and (d) inactive control. Findings: (a) Model-reinforcement and reinforcement counseling produced more external information-seeking behavior than control procedures. (b) With a male model, model-reinforcement counseling surpassed reinforcement counseling for males but not for females. (c) Groups and individual settings were about equally effective on the average but interactions were found with counselor-schools, sex of Ss and treatment s. (16 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)