Expertness and Similarity as Factors of Influence in the Preferences of Deaf College Students for Therapists
Description:
This study utilized Strong's (1963) theory of counseling as a social influence process to investigate the effect of therapist's training, experience, and similarity on hearingimpaired subjects' perceptions of the therapist's expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness and their willingness to see the therapist. Increasing levels of therapists' training and work experience was hypothesized to increase subjects' perception of expertness and their willingness to see the therapist. Increasing l…
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Date:
August 1982
Creator:
Thigpen, Sally Elizabeth
Partner:
UNT Libraries