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.
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School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Brook
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Yechieli
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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