Jane L. Swanson’s research while affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale and other places

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of issues related to using career assessment with African-American clients. We first discuss the philosophy and practice of career assessment, and present an expanded view of assessment. In the second section, we outline general issues in career counseling with African-American clients, including topics to explore in career counseling and the role of the counselor's and client's racial identity attitudes. The third section consists of specific issues in using career assessment with African-American clients, such as how race and racial identity attitudes might influence the process of assessment, and psychometric and theoretical issues in using career assessment instruments. The final section offers some directions for future research and practice regarding career assessment.

Two studies examined the content and construct validity of the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale (WRIAS). In Study 1, WRIAS data on 308 White university students (aged 17–46 yrs) reported by D. M. Tokar and J. L. Swanson (see record 1991-32969-001) were submitted to item and factor analyses to examine psychometric characteristics and dimensionality of the instrument. In Study 2, 5 university students who were trained judges examined the content of each WRIAS item and rationally assigned the items to appropriate subscales based on J. E. Helms (see record 1987-31985-001) theoretical explanation of the effects of race on counseling. Results of the 2 studies did not support the psychometric adequacy of the WRIAS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

This study involved an examination of the psychometric properties of the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale-Form B through item, subscale, and factor analyses. Factor analytic support was found for the Preencounter, Immersion-Emersion, and Internalization subscales. No support was found for an Encounter subscale. However, the factor analysis accounted for a small amount of variance, which, coupled with a finding of marginal internal consistencies, suggests little common variance among the items for the RIAS. Version A and Version B scoring showed little correspondence for some subscales, suggesting the earlier and later scoring versions cannot be considered interchangeable. The Preencounter and Internalization subscales showed highly skewed distributions for a number of items and for subscale scores. The implications of these results for previous and future research using the scale are discussed.

This article presents Parsons' extensive method of assessment and reviews its incorporation of the developing science of psychometrics in the early decades of this century. The utility of self-assessment, also advocated by Parsons, is discussed. It concludes that the validity of Parsons' fundamental ideas, although greatly elaborated in the past 80 years, is affirmed.

This article presents Parsons' extensive method of assessment and reviews its incorporation of the developing science of psychometrics in the early decades of this century. The utility of self-assessment, also advocated by Parsons, is discussed. It concludes that the validity of Parsons' fundamental ideas, although greatly elaborated in the past 80 years, is affirmed.

A study of 565 Puerto Rican patients with storage pool deficient (SPD) Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) demonstrated that most HPS patients had minor bleeding episodes while others had repeated, severe hemorrhagic episodes requiring transfusion. The severity of bleeding in these latter patients could not be attributed to their SPD alone. As swine with SPD platelets and low von Willebrand factor antigen (vWF:Ag) have more severe hemorrhages than pigs with either defect alone, 146 albino patients and 46 normally pigmented patients were examined for their level of vWF:Ag. The risk of SPD HPS patients having severe, repeated bleeding episodes increased when vWF:Ag fell below 70 U/dL. Family studies indicated that low vWF:Ag levels were more frequently associated with O blood group than from a gene suppressing production or release of vWF1. HPS patients should be tested for vWF:Ag levels.

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis was used to analyze the structure of interests of the Women- and Men-in-General samples used in the revision of the 1985 Strong Interest Inventory (Hansen & Campbell, 1985). In the present study, the intercorrelation matrices of the Strong Interest Inventory General Occupational Themes, for the 1985 Women-in-General and Men-in-General Reference Samples, were separately submitted to MDS. Results from earlier analyses that found sex differences in the structure of interests (Feldman & Meir, 1976; Rounds, Davison, & Dawis, 1979; Utz & Korben, 1976) may have been confounded because matched-interest samples were not used. Subjects for the Women-in-General and Men-in-General samples used in this study were selected with the specific intention of matching the interests of females and males by choosing participants who were matched on occupational title. The obtained two-dimensional solutions demonstrated a gender difference in the underlying structure of interests for these reference groups. Possible explanations and implications of these results are discussed.

Examined the impact and relative contribution of trainee cognitive style, program membership, and experience level to the differing needs and expectations of graduate counseling trainees. 79 graduate students in 3 programs (counseling psychology, clinical psychology, and counselor education) completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, G. N. Reising and M. H. Daniels's (see record 1983-26518-001) Counselor Development Questionnaire-Supervisory Needs Subtest, and P. P. Heppner and H. J. Roehlke's (see record 1984-15999-001) Supervisor Perception Form—Trainee. Results suggest that trainees' expectations and needs regarding the supervisory experience differed by program membership, amount of practicum experience, and cognitive style. Differences due to the amount of experience were more prevalent than were those due to the other 2 factors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

A mouse IgG1 monoclonal antibody (MAb) UMRh, was prepared by immunizing Balb/c mice with the Jurkat T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cell line. The MAb UMRh is directed against a widely distributed Rh-related cell surface antigen, present on red blood cells (RBCs) expressing the more common Rh phenotypes. The antigen has reduced expression on RBCs of -D-, DCW-/DCW-, Rhmod and Rhnull phenotypes. UMR immunoblotted a unique pattern on RBC membrane preparations of two bands at 40 and 43 kD and a diffuse pattern extending upward to about 55 kD. The UMRh antigen is also present on peripheral blood mononuclear cells, granulocytes, platelets, leukemic cells of T cell, B cell and myeloid origins, hematopoietic stem cells, and two tumor lines (lung and colon carcinoma). The number of UMRh sites per RBC (CDe/ce) was determined to be 5,519 copies/cell, whereas the sites on a -D- phenotype RBC were 1,096 copies/cell. A T-ALL line (CEM) expressed 333,364 copies/cell and a myeloid line (KG-1) expressed 90,913 copies/cell. Several Rh-related murine MAbs have been described, but our data indicates that UMRh recognizes a previously uncharacterized Rh-related specificity.

The study examined relations among measured vocational interests and self-rated skills and abilities in a sample of 112 college students (58 women and 54 men). Participants were administered the Strong Interest Inventory (Hansen & Campbell, 1985) and a self-ratings questionnaire assessing 14 general abilities and 30 specific skills. Results of principal components, correlational, and regression analyses suggested that (a) interests, abilities, and skills are sufficiently distinct to be considered separate constructs worthy of independent assessment, yet (b) interests, abilities, and skills within the same Holland type (1985a) show predictable relations to one another.