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Patterns of Expectations About Counseling: Relations to the Five‐Factor Model of Personality
Author(s) -
Schaub Michael,
Tokar David M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02438.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , personality , optimism , cluster (spacecraft) , interpretation (philosophy) , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , programming language
The authors sought to identify groups of students who differed in their patterns of expectations about counseling, and then to relate those groups to personality, as organized in the 5‐factor model (FFM). Results of cluster analysis of 150 female and 96 male students' responses to the Expectations About Counseling‐Brief form (EAC‐B; H. E. A. Tinsley, 1982) questionnaire revealed 5 distinct clusters. Results of discriminant analysis identified 2 FFM personality functions (A Neuroticism and Closedness and Optimism) that meaningfully discriminated among the 5 clusters. A brief interpretation is offered of each cluster that integrates information based on EAC‐B factor scores and the significant personality functions.