Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a group career/life planning counseling model on the sex role and career self-concept of female undergraduates at a university in the Southwestern area of the United States. The study was designed to examine the changes in women's sex role self-concepts, their vocational preferences, their career maturity levels, and their attitudes about marriage - career conflict after participating in the group counseling sessions. Ninety volunteer female undergraduates at Texas A&M University participated in this study. They were recruited by notices posted around the campus and by presentations in university classes. The subjects were randomly assigned to four experimental groups or to the one large control or no treatment group. The group leaders were two female psychologists who led one group each and one female doctoral student in Educational Psychology (counseling) who led two groups. The leaders were randomly assigned to the groups. The counselors were trained by the experimenter to lead the career counseling groups. Treatment consisted of career life/planning structured exercises, group counseling and discussions, and career homework assignments. Each treatment session lasted approximately one and one-half hours. There was one treatment period per experimental group each week for a seven-week period. ...
Kimbrough, Frances Harriett (1981). Effects of a group career/life planning counseling model on the sex role and career self-concept of female undergraduates. Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -646861.