Some Developmental Components of the Career Decision Making Process Among College Students

Current research suggests that there is some relationship between developmental variables, levels of career maturity and career decisions. In this study, the relationships between certain developmental factors and the degree of certainty expressed by college students about their decision to major in a field of study were explored. The variables included the student\u27s decision making stage, decision making styles, levels of autonomy and interpersonal relationships, and degree of career maturity. The relationships between students\u27 status as decided or undecided about a choice of major and the variables were also investigated. The participants of this study were 104 men (n=47) and women (n=57) who were enrolled as degree seeking students at Virginia Commonwealth University during the 1981 academic year. It was found that the student\u27s scores on developmental measures did interact with levels of certainty of the decision making outcomes. Significant positive relationships were found to exist between decision making stage, decision making style, level of autonomy, career maturity, and the expressed level of certainty of the decision. Also, it was found that students who had decided upon a major field of study scored significantly higher on the measure of career maturity than did the undecided students. It was suggested that these results be applied to the career/academic counseling setting. Counselors could better help students to plot a course towards effective decision making by considering informational and developmental factors as components of the career decision making process

Bounding the Tau Neutrino Magnetic Moment from Single Photon Searches at LEP

We show that single photon searches at LEP constrain the tau neutrino magnetic moment to be less than ${\cal O}(10^{-6})~\mu_B$. This bound is competitive with low energy ($s\simeq (30~GeV)^2$) single photon searches.Comment: 5 pgs. LaTeX, one reference fixed in revised version, JHU-TIPAC-940004, UM-TH-94-1

Rhetoric and rhythm - Derrida, Nancy and the Poetics of Drawing

Opening with a consideration of the distribution of the two graphic acts — drawing and writing — this article offers a comparative study of Jacques Derrida's and Jean-Luc Nancy's respective exhibitions and catalogue essays on the subject of drawing. Through a comparative examination of what I take to be their central theoretical contributions to the study of drawing — Derrida its ‘rhetoric’, Nancy its ‘rhythm’ — this article moves on to suggest how these concepts inform a theory of poetic lineation

An Interactional/Social Psychological Approach to Defiance and Therapeutic Paradox

This study tested the general hypothesis that a client\u27s compliance or defiance of a therapeutic directive could be accurately predicted by manipulating the variables of incongruence and dependency within the client-counselor relationship. An attempt to control the relationship variables was made by using a no-choice, paradoxical directive to increase levels of relationship incongruence. The manipulation of the client\u27s perception of their counselor\u27s level of experience and expertness was aimed at controlling the dependency variables. The hypothesis that clients would report improvement of their symptom, following the delivery of a paradoxical directive, was also investigated. The subjects of the study were 30 undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. All of the subjects reported to experiencing problems with Procrastination and wished to change this behavior. Subjects were randomly assigned to two treatment groups and a no-treatment control condition. In the treatment conditions, students received two interviews with counselors who were reported as being either expert or inexperienced. Each subject was given exactly the same paradoxical directive regardless of the experience level of the counselor. During the second interview, subjects were asked by their counselors and a confederate peer if they had completed the paradoxical assignment. Subjects responses were recorded and coded. All 30 subjects completed a weekly procrastination measure. In addition, treatment group subjects completed questionnaires regarding their perception of their counselors. All subjects completed inventories measuring their orientation to the change process. Subjects of all three conditions reported to significantly decreasing (p\u3c.001) their levels of procrastination over time. There was no significant difference reported between the three groups. Statistical analysis revealed that subjects\u27 response types could not be accurately predicted at the p\u3c.05 level. An analysis of the available data suggests that the subjects did not differentially perceive the counselors as expert or inexperienced, therefore, one of the experimental variables may not have been successfully manipulated. Further, the data indicates that the current primary hypotheses need to be revised and reevaluated

The Evil Soul in Plato\u27s Laws

Evil soul in the Laws is \u27self-generating motion in more than one place.\u2