scholarly journals Relationship of career maturity, self-efficacy and social support in course selection of the university students and junior college students.

2014 ◽  
Vol 78 (0) ◽  
pp. 2PM-2-040-2PM-2-040
Author(s):  
Marina Higuchi ◽  
Mami Tazoe
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
Career Maturity ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Course Selection ◽  
Junior College Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Selection Of

Socio-Economic Status, Test Bias and the Selection of Police

1992 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde A. Winters
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Inwald Personality Inventory ◽  
Chicago Police ◽  
Junior College Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of

Many psychology tests used in the employment field have potential ethnic bias. In a study of college students in a mid-Western Junior College, students were asked to answer selected items from the Inwald Personality Inventory to determine the impact critical items from this inventory might have on the selection of police. The test results show that economic status can affect the score of minority applicants on the IPI test. This paper will show that a comparison of the test scores of the subjects of this study, and the overall success rate of African-American candidates for the Chicago Police Department indicate that selected “critical items” from the IPI test can negatively affect the employment opportunity of African-Americans as police officers.

Exploring Facets of a Social Network to Explicate the Status of Social Support and Its Effects on Stress

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 701-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia Hsun Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
Junior College Students

International Chinese five-year junior college students were examined with regard to the status of actual social support and perceived stress, the relationship between actual social support and perceived stress, and the status of a social network, in order to explain how actual social support operates. Sixty-four students from a population of 313 responded to the questionnaires which included the Actual Social Support Scale (Jou, 1994), the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983), and the Measure of Social Support Network Scale (Blyth & Traeger, 1988). Results showed that students in Taiwan exhibit higher perceived stress and experience lower actual social support, higher actual social support may result in lower perceived stress, and the students' social network was limited to segregation with international Chinese college students in Taiwan. This suggests that more social contact with local people may help students to enlarge their social network, thus offering better social support for alleviating perceived stress.

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