Icelanders’ and U.S. Nationals’ Expectations about Counseling

The Role of Nationality, Sex, and Holland’s Typology

Bibliographic Data

ID7842924
AuthorsStefanía Ægisdóttir (Ball State University, corresponding author), Lawrence H Gerstein (0000-0002-4014-7272, Ball State University)
Year2004
Volume35
Issue6
Pages734-748
Publication date2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022022104270115
OpenAlexW2148659950
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited25

This study compared counseling expectations of Icelandic and U.S. college students, investigated counseling expectations as a function of sex, and explored the relationship between counseling expectations and Holland’s typology. It was discovered that the Icelandic students expected greater expertise from the counselor than did the U.S. students and the U.S. students expected the counseling conditions to be more facilitative than did the Icelandic students. Also, women, as compared with men, expected counseling to be more facilitative of change and expected to be more personally committed to the counseling process, whereas men expected more counselor expertise. A canonical correlation analysis revealed a significant relationship between counseling expectations and Holland’s Social and Realistic personality types for the U.S. students and Holland’s Social type for the Icelandic students

Counseling psychology · Function (biology · Icelandic · Personality · Psychological counseling · Sociology · Typology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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