Level of School Counselor Actualizing and Student Perception of Guidance Services: Further Validation of the Personal Orientation Inventory

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between level of counselor actualizing and student evaluation of their high school guidance program. The samples included the counselor in each of 23 Ohio high schools who completed Shostrom's (1963) Personal Orientation Inventory and 1,658 of their respective eleventh grade students who completed Wysong's (1971) Guidance Program Evaluation Student Survey. Significant correlations were obtained between student ratings of the effectiveness of the guidance program and POI scales of Time Competence and Spontaneity. Thus the more actualizing the counselor as measured by the POI the more likely the students were to assign high ratings to the school guidance program.