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Personality characteristics and counseling effectiveness of Black and White community college probationary students
Abstract
This study investigated the personality characteristics of Black and White community college students who were on academic probation. Specific personality characteristics examined in this study and assessed by the subscales of the Omnibus Personal Inventory were Autonomy, Personal Integration, and Anxiety. The effect of counseling on the grade-point average of the participants who were on probation was also investigated. Forty-one students on probation and 41 students in good standing were included in the first part of the study. Fifty-nine counseled and 41 non-counseled students were included in the second part of the study. The probation students were contacted by mail and telephone and requested to make an appointment with a counselor. Those who kept their appointments were included in the counseled group, and those who did not keep their appointments were included in the non-counseled group. Information on age, income, number of dependents, and employment status was obtained by having the students complete the Adult Learner Needs Assessment Survey. Information on the students' academic achievement in reading and English was obtained from the testing files. The data for both parts of the study were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance. The results indicated that probation students tended to be less autonomous, had lower reading and English achievement levels, and had lower incomes than students in good standing. White students on probation tended to be less autonomous and had less personal integration than White students in good standing. White students on probation were more anxious and had less personal integration than Black students on probation. Black and White students in good standing had higher reading and English levels than Black and White students on probation. The results of the second part of the study revealed that the grade-point average of probation students who received counseling was significantly higher than the grade-point average of students who did not receive counseling.
Subject Area
Academic guidance counseling
Recommended Citation
Davis, Bobbie Ada, "Personality characteristics and counseling effectiveness of Black and White community college probationary students" (1988). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8818613.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8818613