Students' preferences for male or female counselors for social and educational problems.
Fifty-eight male and 66 female junior high school students were examined to determine their preferences for sex of counselor under personal/social and educational hypothetical counseling situations. Girls demonstrated a definite same-sex preference for both counseling situations, while boys preferred male counselors for personal/social counseling and had opposite-sex preferences for educational counseling. Implications of the findings are discussed in light of earlier contradictory results from research on college students.
School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
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Yechieli
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012917:Social Adjustment