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OCI:INEPT SEWS t ED 032 576 CC 004 424 By-Muthard. John E.. Ed.; Dumas. Neil S.. Ed. Six Years of Rehabilitation Research.: Studies Of Personnel in Health Related Professions. Client Motivation and Research Utilization. Final Report. Florida Univ.: Gainesville. Coll. of Health Related Professions.; Florida Univ.. Gainesville. Regional Rehabilitation Research Inst. S Agency-Department of Health. Education. and Welfare. Washington. D.C. Social and Rehabilitation Cice - Report No-RRR -Monog-3 Pub Date Apr 69 Note -51p. Available from-UF -RRRI. Health Center. Box 208. University of Florida. Gainesville. Florida- 32601 (Single Copies Are Free). MRS Price MF -$025 HC -$265 Descriptors -Health Personnel. Manpower Utilization. Motivation. Nonprofessional Personnel. Personnel. *Rehabilitation Counseling. Research and Development Centers. Research Utilization This report reviews the accomplishments. nature. score. and intended im_pact of the Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute at the University of Florida (UF-RRRI). The Institute's current projects and activities in manpower and research utilization are reviewed as well as investigations conducted by previous staff members in the areas of client motivation and the selection of personnel for the health related professions. Abstracts of completed studies are provided in addition to an enumeration of the Institute's research resources and on-gaing projects investigating the use of support personnel in occupational and physical therapy as well as rehabilitation counseling. (Author) I I 1

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OCI:INEPT SEWS tED 032 576 CC 004 424By-Muthard. John E.. Ed.; Dumas. Neil S.. Ed.Six Years of Rehabilitation Research.: Studies Of Personnel in Health Related Professions. Client Motivationand Research Utilization. Final Report.

Florida Univ.: Gainesville. Coll. of Health Related Professions.; Florida Univ.. Gainesville. Regional RehabilitationResearch Inst.

SAgency-Department of Health. Education. and Welfare. Washington. D.C. Social and RehabilitationCice-

Report No-RRR -Monog-3Pub Date Apr 69Note -51p.Available from-UF -RRRI. Health Center. Box 208. University of Florida. Gainesville. Florida- 32601 (SingleCopies Are Free).

MRS Price MF -$025 HC -$265Descriptors -Health Personnel. Manpower Utilization. Motivation. Nonprofessional Personnel. Personnel.

*Rehabilitation Counseling. Research and Development Centers. Research UtilizationThis report reviews the accomplishments. nature. score. and intended im_pact of

the Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute at the University of Florida (UF-RRRI).The Institute's current projects and activities in manpower and research utilizationare reviewed as well as investigations conducted by previous staff members in theareas of client motivation and the selection of personnel for the health relatedprofessions. Abstracts of completed studies are provided in addition to anenumeration of the Institute's research resources and on-gaing projects investigatingthe use of support personnel in occupational and physical therapy as well asrehabilitation counseling. (Author)

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SIX YEARS OF REHABILITATION RESEARCH:

STUDIES OF PERSONNEL IN HEALTH RELATED PROFESSIONS,

CLIENT MOTIVATION AND RESEARCH UTILIZATION

Edited by

JOHN E. MUTHARD NEIL S. DUMAS

Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute

College of Health Related Professions

University of Florida

Final Report RD- 1i127- G

Gainesville, FloridaApril, 196S'

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U.S. DEPARTMENT Of HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE

OFFICE Of EDUCATION

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE

PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT. POINTS Of VIEW OR OPINIONS

STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE Of EDUCATION

POSITION OR POLICY.

This investigation was supported in part by

research grants (RD-1127-G and RD-2870-G)

from the Social and Rehabilitation Service,

Department of Health, Education and Welfare,

Washington, D. C., 20201.

Copies may be secured from:

UF-RRRIHealth Center Box 208University of FloridaGainesville, Florida 32601

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction1

Role of 1 Rehabilitation ResearchInstitute 2

Institute Activities: 1967-69 3

Support Personnel 4Physical Therapy 4Rehabilitation Counseling 5

Longitudinal Study of Personnelin Health Related Professions 6

Dissemination, Retrieval andUtilization of Information 8

The Research Posture of UF-RRRI 11

A Brief History of UF-RRRI Staffing 13

Studies of Students in HealthRelated Professions 14Digest of Monograph No. 2 15Abstracts of Published Research 17

Studies of Client Motivation 28Digest of Monograph No. 1 29Abstracts of Published Research 31

Other Studies 35

Appendix ARoster of Rehabilitation Research

Institutes 40

Appendix B

Publications of the UF-RRRI 43

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PREFACE

As the final report for the Socialand Rehabilitation service grant RD 1127,this publication reviews the activities of

the University of Florida Regional ResearchInstitute (UF-RRRI) from its establishmentthrough the advent of the new core researchprogram. It also describes the recent andcurrent activities of the UF-RRRI so thatrehabilitation workers can know how theInstitute's publications and projects mayassist them. Lastly, the report presentsabstracts of the monographs and the jour-

nal articles written by the previous staffwhich were relevant to the core researchareas of the Institute s first years. Ad-

ditional reports which have relevance torehabilitation workers are also presented.

The research described herein hasbeen conducted by the UF-RRRI as a integralunit of the College of Health Related Pro-fession at the university of Florida. Theguidance and assistance of the Dean of thatCollege, Darrel J. Mase, has contributedmaterially to the efforts of the Institute.He initiated the establishment of the UF-RRRI and was its first project director.Being a part of the College of Health Re-lated Professions has facilitated the In-stitutes research efforts in the past andis contributing substantially to its cur-

rent activities.

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Since its inception the major supportfor the UF-RRRI has come from the Socialand Rehabilitation Service. Until March31, 1967 ,this was provided under grantRD 1127, and since that date under RD 2870.We appreciate the assistance of Mr. N. Ed-ward Acree, of that agency, in planningthis report.

To an even greater extent than mostreports, this publication would not havebeen possible without the work of manyothers. The publications of Drs. HarryE. Anderson, Jr., John R. Barry, GeorgeH. Dunteman and Mr. John P. Bailey, Jr.provide the basis for a large part of thisreport.

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ABS1RACT

This report reviews the accomplish-ments, nature, scope and intended impactof the Regional Rehabilitation ResearchInstitute at the University of Florida(UF-RRRI). The Tnstitute/s current pro-jects and activities in manpower and re-search utilization are reviewed as wellas investigations conducted by previousstaff members in the areas of client moti-vation and the selection of personnel forthe health related professions. Abstractsof completed studies are provided in addi-tion to an enumeration of the Institute'sresearch resources and on-going projectsinvestigating the use of support personnelin occupational and physical therapy aswell as rehabilitation counseling.

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INTRODUCTION

With the initiation of a new programof rehabilitation research at the Universityof Florida Regional Rehabilitation ResearchInstitute (UF-RRRI), it seems desirableto review the work, accomplishments andfuture plane of the Institute. This re-port describes the UF-RRRIls newly estab-lished core research interests and thesteps planned to realize them. It alsopresents a recapitulation of the activitiesof the UF-RRRI for the recent past as wellas its first five years. Thus, this publi-cation should serve not only to makeinformation (which heretofore appearedonly in scholarly journals) more accessibleto rehabilitation personnel, but also pro-vide for a better understanding of whatUF-RRRI has done and is planning to do.

Research and other activities in thefollowing topical areas will be described:

1. personnel utilization in thehealth related professions,

2. the selection and training ofhealth related professionals,

3. research utilization and dissemi-nation,

4. client motivation and attitudes,and

5. other research projects and activi-ties of the Institute staff.

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ROLE OF A REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Many individuals who are interested orshould be interested in the activities ofRegional Rehabilitation Research Institutes(RRRI) do not understand their purposes andprograms. From the beginning, the RRRIshave had the following goals:

1. To develop and conduct a program ofresearch in an area important to vo-cational rehabilitation,

2. To provide research consultation tostate rehabilitation agencies onoperational problems, and

3. To participate in operational research at the request of state re-habilitation agencies.

Among the core research areas chosen by theRRRIs for intensive study have been clientdependency and motivation, the provision ofservices to the culturally disadvantaged,rehabilitation in rural America, the func-tions of the state agency counselor in therehabilitation process, etc.

Since 1959, RRRTs have been esta-blished in each of the nine regions of theSocial and Rehabilitation Service (Depart-ment of Health, Education and Welfare).Each has followed the purposes listedabove. Readers interested in further in-formation about any of the eight otherTnstitutes should write to their direc-tors as listed in Appendix A. The ninthInstitute, at the University of Florida,is described in the following pages.

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INSTITUTE ACTIVITIES: 1967-1969

In 1967, the OF -RRRI changed its coreresearch program to study personnel uti-lization problems in rehabilitation serviceprofessions. The form of this new corearea of investigation took the shape of athree pronged attack on methods of moreefficiently solving personnel utiliza-tion problems as follows:

1. A series of investigations ofthe role, function, selection,training and supervision of sup-port personnel in physical andoccupational therapy as well asrehabilitation counseling,

2. The continuation of a longitudi-nal study of personnel in thehealth related professions aimedat identifying the characteris-tics of those individuals whoare most likely to complete theireducation and actually pursuetheir chosen profession in a re-habilitation-related setting, and

3. The on-going review, evaluation,development and publication ofnew techniques for disseminatingstoring, retrieving and utilizing,information, e.g., research re-sults with the goal of facili-tating useful innovations.

In addition, the UF=RRRI has and plans tocontinue sponsoring conferences on topicsrelevant to rehabilitation personnel aswell as meeting the other general goalsof a RRRI.

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SUPPORT PERSONNEL.

To study manpower problems in physi-

cal therapy, rehabilitation counseling and

occupational therapy, a variety of methods

from personnel psychology and operations

research are used. The initial work of

the OF -RRRI focuses upon research questions

regarding the selection and utilization of

support personnel in these three rehabili-

tation service professions. Such studies

not only involve an examination of the en-

tire pattern of services in the organiza-

tions, but also a look at the fully trained

professional as these relate to the use of

support personnel. The first investiga-

tion in the series focuses upon the physi-

cal therapist and provides the basic model

for later study of the occupational thera-

pist and rehabilitation counselor.

Physical Therapy. The approach selec-

ted to investigate the use of support per-

sonnel in physical therapy (PT) comprises:

1) planning and constructing a mathemati-

cal model of the main elements of a PT

facility, 2) simulating the operation of

this model facility via computerized tech-

niques, 3) systematically varying the roles

and functions of the personnel (i.e.,

Registered Physical Therapist, Assistant

and Aide) according to a preset experi-

mental design and 4) evaluating the re-

sults to estimate a set of optimum utili

zation and staffing patterns that can

meet the demand for services.

Objective data for the simulation

experiment will be collected at the Uni-

versity of Florida Health Center. The

analyses will be performed with the assis-

tance of the Health Center's statistizian.

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Representatives of the American PhysicalTherapy Association have agreed to assistin establishing criteria and otherwisecooperate with the study.

Although the simulation model will beapplicable to a wide variety of settings,the use of data from the Health Centerlimits the interpretation of the resultsto that facility. However, plans havebeen made to collect data from a number ofother facilities to broaden the generali-zability of conclusions drawn from the ex-periment. Conceivably, it would be pos-silqe to not only suggest optimum rolesand functions for each facility s person-nel, but also to identify a policy whichwould best meet the needs of most PT in-

stallations in the country.

Rehabilitation Counseling. Since 1965.Dr. Nuthard has been directing a nation-wide study of the roles and functions ofthe rehabilitation counselor sponsored bythe American Rehabilitation CounselingAssociation and the Social and Rehabili-tation Service. This investigation aimsat providing basic information relevantto the utilization and education ofrehabilitation counselors. Tt will pro-vide a context for a later study ofsupport personnel in vocational rehabil-itation. The study, which is to be pub-lished in 1969, will describe:

a) the functions performed by rehabilita-tion counselors (RC) in various set-tings;

b)the perceptions of counselors and oth-ers of the current role of the RC;

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c)the perceptions of counselors andothers of the desirable role of the

RC;

d)the extent to which work setting and

personal characteristics are related

to the actual and desirable functionsof the RC;

e) the conceptions of the future roles

and functions of the RC held by leaders

3n the field of rehabilitation; and

f)the implications of the various RC

role perceptions for the preparationof rehabilitation counselors.

Conference on Counselor Roles and Functions.comp e on of e data co ec on

and analysis phases of The RehabilitationCounselor study, the Institute staffplanned and conducted a Research Utiliza-tion Conference of Rehabilitation CounselorResearch in Washington, D. C. on November

7-8, 1968. This conference broughttogether delegates of the major nationalassociations concerned with the job of the

rehabilitation counselor, representativesof the state, federal and private agencyservice programs and investigators engagedin related research. A publication whichreviews the projects presented and theactivities of these two days will be pub-lished during the spring of 1969.

LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PERSONNEL IN THEHEALTH RELATED PRIWESSIONS,

For over five years, the OF -RRRI has

been collecting data on all students enrolled in a University of Florida course

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entitled "Introduction to the Health Re-

lated Professions." For the most part,these students intended to major in occu-

pational therapy (OT), physical therapy(PT) or medical technology (MT). These

data included not only the usual bio-graphical items, but also the results ofselected interest inventories and person-

ality measures. As the students who parti-

cipated in the earlier OF -RRRI studies(Dunteman, Anderson, Barry, 1966) graduate,data concerning their success and persis-tance at their chosen profession will becollected as criteria for a multivariate

analysis.

This analysis will attempt toidentify the characteristics of thosestudents who are most likely to graduate,enter, succeed and persist in their chosen

field. The goal of this study is to de-

velope a predictive formula which will as-sist in the counseling and selection ofprospective students for OT, PT, and MT.

In addition, the results are expected to

provide leads toward the development of

improved supervision and evaluation tech-

niques in these fields.

Since early 1968, a similar study has

been initiated with students entering therehabilitation counseling program at sev-

eral universities including the: Univer-

sity of Florida, University of Georgia,

Michigan State University, State Univer-

sity of New York at Buffalo, West VirginiaUniversity, and the University of Scranton.

This study will examine the relationshipsbetween selected personal data and inven-

tory scores with success in graduate work,type of position taken, persistence in re-habilitation work, and performance on the

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Graduate Student Examination in Rehabili-

tation Counseling prepared by the Profes-

sional Examination Service of the Ameri-

can Public Health Association.

DISSEMINATION, RETRIEVAL AND UTILIZATION

OF INFORMATION.

The OF -RRRI staff believe that the

use of already established research re-

sults for innovative purposes provides a

fertile area for the development of im-

proved personnel utilization methodologies.For this reason, an on-going series of

projects was established to develop new

tools, disseminate information and provideconsultation to other organizations upon

request.

KWIC Indexes to Rehabilitation and

Other Literature. During 1968, the UF-RRRI

staff identified a need for compiling

a set of indexes to literature relevant

to rehabilitation personnel. Three publi-

cations, all indexed via computerized tech-

niques, were published:

1) Selected Rehabilitation Counsel-JUNgLiteraturet a comprehensivebibliography -index to 3,199 re-ferences selected from hundredsof rehabilitation related sources,

2) Management and Personnel Abstracts,

1,000 abstracts of recent opera-tions research, computer, businessand other technical literatureselected and indexed for rehabi-litation personnel, and

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3) Research and Demonstration Pro-jects: A Bibliography, a compre-hensive index to 2,425 projectreports and the journal articlesthat resulted from them.

These publications are still available inlimited numbers from the Institute. Theindexing procedure, KeyWord-In-Context(KWIC), is also used to maintain theInstitute s in-house information system.

Information Resources Project. Ifsupplemental resources become available,the UF-RRRI will undertake the prepara-tion of additional "tools" designed tofacilitate access to and the utilizationof information resources (e.g., facilitiesand data) by rehabilitation personnel.These "tools" will take the form of threepublications as follows:

1) a catalogue of all research pro-jects sponsored by the Social andRehabilitation Service as well asthe publications resulting fromthem. This catalogue will alsoinclude subject and author index-es compiled via computerizedtechniques similar to those alreadypublished by theInstitute;

2) a guide to information systems inthe United States which will pro-vide services to rehabilitationpersonnel. This guide will beindexed by subject content as wellas geographical location andinclude all the information nec-essary to indentify and use eachfacility (e.g., name and numberof the person to call, probablecost if any); and

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3) a directory of research personnelin the United States with interestsrelevant to rehabilitation, indexedby areas of competency, previouspublication topics and geographicallocation.

As a set, the first two "tools" providemedia for identifying and obtaining rele-vant information or research results. Thethird "tool," the directory of researchpersonnel, is a means for identifying thenearest competent researcher having thecapability of providing consultation (e.g.,to help interpret and apply the researchresults obtained via the first two "tools").

Conference on Research Utilizationand Dissemination. There is little Justi-fication for research activities unlesssome plan is formulated to utilize theirresults. Consequently, the UF-RRRI spon-sored a conference comprising representa-tives of rehabilitation agencies in theSoutheast to review ways and means ofdisseminating, retrieving, and utilizingresearch and demonstration results. Thisconference was held on June 6-7, 1968, inAtlanta, Georgia. The topics discussedincluded: information storage and re-trieval procedures, activities of theSocial and Rehabilitation Service, researchand demonstration grant applications, andoperations research techniques. Two groupsessions were also held to gather thesuggestions of people who face these prob-lems every day. The proceeding of thisconference which was published late in1968 under the title: Research Utiliza-tion and dissemination: Proceedings ofa Regional Conference (Dumas, 1968)ng.

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INLTETITTSIIJA4g4g019111APro ear.---TheirirEfriEETit-'iiM sand p ans to continue participating in theplanning and future phases of the forth-coming national demonstration designed toimprove the methodology and rate of researchutilization and innovation. This projectinvolves placing a Research UtilizationSpecialist in one state in each Social andRehabilitation Service Region to speed therate of information transfer and usefulinnovation. The training program forthese Specialists is slated to be conduc-ted by the Department of RehabilitationCounselor Education at the University ofFlorida.

THE RESEARCH POSTURE OF THE UF-RRRI.

A concerted effort continues to de-velop resources within and associated withthe Institute to improve the capabilityand potential for future research activi-ties. In this connection, the UF-RRRIhas invested many months in developing acomprehensive library of computer prog-rammes for multivariate and univariateanalyses, information storage and retrievalapplications, and operations research meth-odologies. These programs also provide thebasis for the operation of an in-houseinformation systems which is the main ac-cess medium to the Institutels extensivehardcopy and microfiche collection. Pro-cessing for these applications are accomp-lised through rapid and economical conver-sion of data into machine readable form.

The Institute staff maintains jointappointments in the following University

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of Florida Departments: RehabilitationCounselor Education (College of HealthRelated Professions), Counselor Education(College of Education), and Industrial &

Systems Engineering (College of Engineer-ing). In addition, staff and studentsfrom these and other departments areactively invited to take important rolesin the Institutes research projects.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF OF -RRRI STAFFING

As the second RRRI established in thenation with the support of the Social andRehabilitation Service (then Office ofVocational Rehabilitation), the UF-RRRIbegan operations in January, 1962. Ini-tially, Dean Darrell J. Mase was the pro-ject director for the Institute and Dr.John R. Barry was research cocrdinator.Dr. Barry then directed the program from1963 through August, 1966. It was duringthis period that core research studies onfactors related to client motivation forrehabilitation professions were undertaken.These studies were conducted in collabora-tion with Dr. Harry Anderson, Dr. GeorgeDunteman and Mr. John P. Bailey, Jr. Be-tween September, 1966, and August, 1967,at which time Dr. John E. Muthard tookover, Dr. Dunteman was acting head ofthe UF-RRRI. The new core research pro-gram was then established by Dr. Muthardand Dr. Neil S. Dumas, who joined theInstitute staff in June, 1968.

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COWED PROJECTS AND PUBLISHED REPORTS

STUDIES OF STUDENTS IN HEALTH RELATED PROFESSIONS.

One of the two initial core research

areas for the UF-RRRI was the extended

study of health related professions (HRP)

students. The major product of this work

is a monograph which reviews the litera-

ture and summarizes the first series of

studies by Anderson, Barry, and nunteman

(1966). These studies examined the util-

ity of several measures for classifyingstudents and predicting subsequent major

fields chosen. Tan these and subsequent

studies, the UP-RRRI staff demonstratedthe potential of various analystic tech-

niques, such as factor analysis, discri-

minant analysis, and canonical correlatior

for research in the health related pro-

fessions. The Strong Vocational Tnterest

Blank for Women (SVIB) proved ratherconsistently to be the most useful measure

of a battery which included the Minnesota

Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI),

Florida Placement Examination rP9, anda Career Choice Questionnaire CCQ . As

indicated previously, the present Institute

staff intends to continue the longitudinal

study of those student groups after they

graduate and become employed.

In a series of papers since 1965,

the development and use of patient eval-

uation measures for occupational and

physical therapy were described by the

Institute staff. The staff also collab-

orated with professionals on the Florida

campus to develop criteria measures for

these two disciplines.

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Classification and Selection of Students.

Dunteman, G. H., Anderson, H. E. Jr., Barry, R.

Characteristics of Students in the Health RelatedProfessions, Regional Rehabilitation Research In-stitute, University of Florida, Gainesville, No.2, June, 1966.

This monograph describes the initial phasesof an on-going longitudinal research program aimedat determining distinctive motivational, persona-lity, and other personal characteristics of dif-ferent groups of students in some of the healthrelated professions. The prediction of both aca-demic and job success within these same healthprofessions is also to be explored.

The subjects of the present studies were pre-dominantly freshman and sophomore female studentsenrolled in an introductory course designed togive an orientation to the health professions.The students were divided into four groups on thebasis of the fields they planned to study: medi-cal technology (MT), physical therapy (PT), occu-pational therapy (0T), or some other field (0).Personality, interest, attitude, aptitude, andbiographical information data were obtained fromthese students. Discriminant analyses were thenmade to determine whether these four groups ofstudents could be significantly differentiatedfrom each other on the basis of the above data.A further question concerned whether the differ-ences among the groups of students were of prac-tical significance in the identification of a stu-dent's group membership. The Florida PlacementExamination (FPE), an achievement test, and theStrong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) discri-minated among the groups, while the MinnesotaMultiphasic Personality Inventory, School and Col-lege Ability Test, and the Attitude Toward Dis-

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abled Persons did not. Futhermore, these differ-

ences were significant in a practical sense as well

as in a statistical sense. On the basis of bothachievement test scores and interest scores, thestudents could be adequately classified into four

groups. It was found that the SVIB predictedgroup membership far more efficiently than the FPE.

Separate factor analyses of the MinnesotaMultiphasic Personality Inventory and the StrongVocational Interest Blank suggested the underlyingpersonality and interest structure of students in

the health related professions. Use of the re-

sulting factors simplified the discriminant anal-yses by reducing the number of dimensions needed to

account for group differences.

The most important factor from the analysis

of the MMPI was characterized as social submissive-ness and emotional warmth in a serious, prone -to -

worry person. The second most important factorwas characterized by extroversion, social assert-iveness, independence of thought and action, and a

tendency toward unsettled personal identification

and philosophy. The remaining factor appeared toreflect an impunitive attitude in the way peopleview others, the world, and themselves.

Nine factors were extracted from the SVIB.The fourth factor was of special interest becausescales measuring interest in the health relatedprofessions loaded heavily on it. Both the Nur-sing and Occupational Therapy scales, which werethe major determinants of Factor IV, loaded only

on that Factor. This was in contrast to many of

the other scales which had significant loadingson more than one factor. This factor analysis

suggested that interest in the health professions

may be more homogeneous in nature than many other

interest areas.

Five factors of the SVIB enabled discrimina-

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tion among the four groups. The MT group scored

the lowest on two factors which reflected interestin non-technical occupations requiring personalinteractions. Both PTs and Os scored low on athird factor which was defined by the Artist, Au-thor, and Librarian interest scales. OTs scoredlowest on a factor defined by clerical and busi-ness interest scales, and the PTs scored higheston a factor defined by physical education teacher

scales.

Study of occupational therapy students in-dicated that clinical ratings of OT performancecould not be predicted from academic course gradesor the FPE achievement test. This study sug-gested that clinical performance and academicachievement are relatively independent. It ap-

pears quite likely that non-intellective predic-tors will be needed to predict the clinical per-formance criteria.

Plans for future analyses were discussed,including follow up studies of current studentsafter graduation. The same predictor data, usedin the discriminant analysis, will be used againin an attempt to predict OT and PT Job success.Eventually, attempts will be made to develop ajoint index using information derived from bothregression and discriminant analyses for use inrecruiting, selecting and training personnel forthe health related professions,

Anderson, H. E., Jr.

Occupational choicessions, Personnel and177-184.

and Barry, J. R.

in selected health profes -

Guidance Journal, 1965, 44,

This paper reports the results of fivestudies with four groups of female students:those intending to enter occupational therapy,

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physical therapy, medical technology, and "others"who were interested generally in health and re-habilitation professions. No discrimination couldbe made among the four groups on the basis of per-sonality, attitudinal, and basic abilities vari-ables. Significant differences were observed,however, on the Florida Placement Examination withprospective physical therapy students somewhat lowon the natural and social science scales. Signi-ficant differences were determined, also, with theStrong Vocational Interest Blank. Medical techno-logists were low on factors that contained nontech-nical vocations requiring a good deal of inter-action with people; physical therapists were lowon the artist-author-librarian factor but high onthe physical education teacher scales. Optimizingdiscriminant equations are presented where find-ings were significant, and the results are dis-cussed in terms of educational and professionalimplications as well as future research.

Anderson, H. E., Jr.

A factorial study of the female form of the SVIBJournal of Applied Psychology, 1956, 49, 270-273.

The female form of the SVIB was administeredto 203 freshman and sophomore female students inan introductory course in the University of Flor-ida's College of Health Related Services. Twenty-nine scales were scored, intercorrelated, and fac-tor analyzed. Nine factors resulted with loadingsof ±.35 or more. The factors are discussed interms of implications for female vocational inte-rest and compared with previous factor analyticstudies with the male form of the Blank. Basedon the factor structure of the female interestsgroupings of occupations are presented.

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Dunteman, G. H.

A note on the factorial invariance of the female

form of the SVIB, Journal of Applied Psychology,

1966, 50, 561-562.

The factorial structure of an early and recentBale form of the SVIB was compared. It was found

that two of the largest factors isolated in the re-

cent study were highly similar to two of the four

factors isolated in the earlier study. The remain-

ing two factors isolated in the earlier studyshowed moderate similarity to two additional fac-

tors out of the nine factors found in the recent

study. It was concluded that, in general, the

factorial structure of the two forms was quite

similar.

Dunteman, G. H.

Discriminant analyses of the SVIB for female stu-dents in five college curricula, Journal of Appli-

ed Psychology, 1966, 50, 509-515.

A multiple discriminant-function analysisdisclosed that groups of students majoring inOccupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, MedicalTechnology, Nursing, and Education could be suc-

cessfully distinguished from each other on the

basis of 29 scales of the SVIB for Women.Furthermore, two discriminant analyses using 11

scales also indicated successful discrimination.Two discriminant functions were significant in

each analysis and the configuration of the groups

in the discriminant space and efficiency of class-

ification for all analyses were highly similar.

It was concluded that the SVIB should be a useful

instrument for discriminating between college

majors when utilizing discriminant-function

analysis.

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Dunteman, G. H.

Validities of the female form of the Strong Vo-

cational Interest Blank occupational therapy,

laboratory technology, and nursing keys, Journal

of Experimental Education, 35, 4, 53-57.

An attempt was made to determine if the Occu-

pational Therapy, Laboratory Technician, and Nur-

sing scales of the SVIB would differentiate a-

mong female college students in Occupational Ther-

apy (OT, N=47), Medical Technology (MT, N=36),

Nursing (N, N=47), and a group of other (0, N=60),

students not enrolled in any health professions

curricula. A generalized D2 indicated that the

score vectors for the four groups were signifi-

cantly different from each other. Since the groups

could be differentiated on the basis of the three

SVIB scales, likelihood functions for predicting

group membership were computed. These equations

indicated that the Laboratory Technician scale

contributed the most to group discrimination.

However, each scale was weighted heavily in the

equation for the group for which the scale was

specifically constructed. The best classifica-

tion occured for the MT group and the worst, for

the Other student group. D2s computed for each

of the six possible two group comparisons indi-

cated that the OT, N, and 0 groups clustered much

nearer to each other than they did to the MT group.

In general, the three SVIB scale performed quite

well in differentiating among the four groups.

Dunteman, G. H.

Cross validities of six SVIB discriminant equa-

tions for female students in health and education

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1967,

27, 1091-1091.

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This study is a cross-validation of a dis-criminant analysis of an earlier investigation byG. H. Dunteman. Six different classificationequations derived from various scales of the SVIBfor Women were cross-validated on a more recentsample of 135 female students currently enrolledin medical technology, occupational therapy, phy-scial therapy, nursing, and education at eitherthe junior or senior levels. All six equationsyielded a higher percentage of correct classifica-tions on a cross-validation sample than would beexpected by chance and some equations performedmuch better than others. Indications are thatthe most effective equations on cross-validationwere those that were developed on the basis of a"moderate" fit to the validation data.

Dunteman, G. H. and Bailey, J. P., Jr.

A canonical correlational analysis of thethe MMPI for a female college populationEducational and Psychological Measurement27, 631-642.

SVIB and

, 1967,

Canonical correlational analysis was used todetermine the extent to which the MMPI and theSVIB for women were related and how many commonfactors there were underlying the relationshipsbetween these two sets of variables. The resultssuggest that perhaps there is more of an overlapbetween inventoried personality and interesttraits than has been supposed. Canonical corre-lational analysis, as opposed to factor analysis,seems to bring out these similarities.

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Anderson, H. E. Jr., Davis, H. C. Jr. and WolkinqW. D.

A factorial study of the MMPI for students inhealth and rehabilitation, Educational and Psy-chological Measurement, 1966, 26, 29-39.

Three factors were constructed, via the prin-cipal component method, from the MMPI scores ofN=168 female students (freshmen and sophomores)enrolled in a basic course in the University ofFlorida College of Health Related Professions.These factors are part of a longitudinal studyto investigate the relationship of the persona-lity structure of students in health and rehabi-litation pre-professional programs to perfor-mance measures during and after training. Thefactors contained the following MMPI scales:I) D, Si, Pt and Pa; II) Sc, Ma and Pd; andIII) Hy and Hs. The M-F scale has its highestloading on Factor II, although the absolutevalue of the loading is not high. An inter-pretation of these factors, within the limits ofthe validity of the MMPI research on non-clinicsamples of college females, is provided. Direc-tions for further research are indicated. Com-ments concerning the use of canonical correla-tions, with respect to scoring artifacts in theMMPI scales, are also provided.

Dunteman, G. H.

A discriminant analysis of the MMPI for femalecollege students in health and education, Journalof Experimental Education, 35, 3, 85-90

A discriminant function analysis involvingthe ten basic Minnesota Multiphasic PersonalityInventory scales was conducted on the followingfive college curriculum groups: OccupationalTherapy (OT, N=47), Physical Therapy (PT, N=44),Medical Technology (MT, N=51), Nursing (N, N=53)and Education (E, N=24). The largest discrimi-nant function was significant at the .02 level

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while the remaining three functions did not ap-proach significance at the .05 level. The MTgroup was fairly well separated from the OT, PT,and N groups by the largest discriminant function.

The Introversion scale had the largest weight inthis discriminant function. Further, the con-figuration of the five groups in the space definedby the first two discriminant functions was dis-cussed and it was concluded that, while the re-sults are of theoretical interest, they have .Limit-ed value in a practical real-life guidance situa-tion.

Bailey, J. P., Jr.

"Some Comparisons of Occupational Therapy Bio-graphical Facts With Implications for Recruiting,"American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1965,19, (2), 76-78.

The responses to a Career Choice Question-naire of 185 college women enrolled in an intro-ductory course to the health related professions,and who later earned a degree in occupationaltherapy, medical technology, physical therapy,nursing or education at the University of Florida,are examined for differences of possible use inprediction, counseling, or recruiting. Specificcontrasts are made between occupational therapyand each of the other four groups and a compositeof a typical freshman or sophomore prospectiveoccupational therapist is drawn. Based on theseresponses, occupational therapists are urged torecruit more extensively at the high school level.

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Criteria for OT and PT Performance.

Jantzen, A. C. and Anderson, H. E. Jr.

Patient evaluation of occupational therapy pro-grams, American Journal of Occupational Therapy,

1965, 19, (1), 19-22.

This study examined selected correlates ofpatients' evaluations of occupational therapy (OT)

service programs. A questionnaire was devised toobtain patients' ratings of the therapist in threeroles: 1) as a teacher, 2) as a therapist and 3)

as a professional person, as well as the patients'

evaluation of their OT clinical programs. Re-

sponses were obtained from N=140 physical dis-

ability cases in five institutions and N=159psychiatric cases in four institutions. The

three roles of the therapist were shown to besignificantly related to the patients' evalua-tion of OT, with the role of the therapist quatherapist as the most dominant. The teaching

factor was seen to be of more importance for phy-sical disability cases, while inter-personal be-havior was relatively more important for psychi-

atric cases. The results are discussed in termsof implications for future as well as previousresearch.

Anderson, Harry E. and Jantzen, Alice C.

A prediction of clinical performanceAmerican Journal of Occupational Thera 1965,

6- 8.

Twenty-eight Occupational Therapy studentswho graduated from the University of Florida be-tween 1961 and 1964 were rated on the Report of

Performance in Student Affiliation and on a rating

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form of the American Occupational Therapy Asso-ciation. Ratings by their supervisors in oneor two clinics were correlated with their acade-mic achievement grades in freshman and sophomorecourses: in American Institutions, PhyscialSciences, English, Logic, Mathematics, Humanities,Biology and Psychology. All these courses weretaken in the freshman and sophomore years. Thecorrelations indicated, as had earlier studies,that grades and achievement measures appear to beineffective predictors of clinical performance.It is concluded that predictors other than pre-professional course grades need to be used to pre-dict clinical success.

Anderson, E., Jantzen, C., Shelton, J., & Dunte-man, G. H.

The effects of response sets in questionnairestudies, American Journal of Occupational Therapy,1965, 19 (6), 348-350.

The authors' questionnaire on patient eval-uation of occupational therapy (OT) programs, whichoriginally contained only positive statements,was reconstructed by restating its items in thenegative direction. This was done to test theoperation of positive response set in the initialform. Analysis of responses to both forms of thescale by similar groups of patients revealed dif-ferences interpreted to be a function of responseset. With the negative questionnaire there was asignificant lowering of the subscale average rat-ings, although the interrelationships among thesubscales in the two forms remained the same. Thenegative form was also found to be more efficientthan the positive form in predicting the overallevaluation of the therapist. Ratings of the OTas therapist, rather than in terms of teachingrole or over impression, were again found most

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important in predicting the overall evaluation.

Bailey, J. P. Jr., Jantzen, A. C., and Dunteman,G. H.

"Relative Effectiveness of Personality, Achieve-ment and Interest Measures in the Prediction ofa Performance Criterion," American Journal ofOccupational Therapy, 1969, 23, (1), 27-29.

The relative effectiveness of the SVIB, theMMPI, and the Florida Placement Examination (FPE)in predicting Report of Performance in StudentAffiliation (RPSA) scores for female occupationaltherapists in a psychiatric setting is assessed andcompared. The eleven RPSA Part I trait scoreswere reduced by principle components analysis toone composite crierion score, which was used asa criterion in each of three regression analyses.The SVIB was by far the most effective predictor,while the MMPI and FPE were about as ineffectiveas previously reported personality and achievementmeasures. The implications and possible reasonsfor these findings are discussed, as well as asuggestion for construction of a better perfor-mance rating instrument.

Anderson, H. E. Jr., Aldredge, H. P., White,B. C. and Wroe, M. C.

"The Roles of the Physical Therapist: TheirImportance to the Patient, "Journal of theAmerican Physical Therapy Association, 1965, 45,768-7/2.

Two hundred and forty-five patients receivingphysical therapy in seven different centers through-out the United States were contacted through ques-tionnaires. The questions were designed to deter-mine how patients perceive the role of the physi-cal therapist as a therapist, as a teacher, andthe general professional conduct of the physicaltherapist in terms of the paLient'S over-all

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evaluation of the physical therapy program.

With ratings on the three therapist roles aspredictors and the patients overall evaluationof the therapist as the criterion, multiple corre-lations were calculated for four groups differen-tiated on patient tenure. In the four analyses,the therapists role as therapist was consistentlyfound to be the best predictor of overall effect-iveness. Suggestions were made for additionalstudies which might give further information onpatient reactions to, and impressions of, physi-cal therapists and physical therapy programs.

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STUDIES OF CLIENT MOTIVATION.

During Dr. John Barry's tenure asInstitute Director, client motivation wasa main area of research investigation.The monograph, Client Motivation for Re-habilitation: A Review, sumaRzed rele-vant literaiureEraggested methods andlines of attack for further research. Thestudies conducted at UFAIRRI dealt withthree aspects: (1) the client s satis-faction with his environment, (2) theattitudes and values associated with cli-ent motivation and (3) the manipulationof rewards as a motivating technique.Most of the completed studies use theHerzberg Two- Factor Theory as a frame ofreference. In the course of these inves-tigations, some evidence contradictingthis theory was uncovered as well as sup-port for other aspects. Abstracts of themonograph and the UF-RRRI studies arepresented below.

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Barry, J. R. and Malinovsky, M. R.

"Client Motivation For Rehabilitation: A Review,"University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Re-habilitation Research Monograph Series, No. 1, 1965.

In this extended review of the literature,the concept of motivation, as used by the various

rehabilitation specialties, was described and dis-cussed. In most instances, the concept was foundto be used very broadly, More specific definitionof the client behaviors and characteristics sub-sumed under the term motivation strengthened re-search on client motivation.

For the review, studeis in client motivationwere grouped into three major areas: those dealingprimarily with physiological and safety needs,those dealing primarily with love and belonging-ness needs, and those dealing with self-esteem andself-actualizing needs. In addition to this group-ing, based upon Maslow's schema for describingpersonality, subgroupings referring to the sourceof the client's need or motivation were used.

7n some instances, researchers and other wri-ters have considered motivation to be an essent-ially intrinsic variable or characteristic, i.e.,intrinsic to the client and originating withinthe client's psychological system. Other writershave considered motivation as primarily the re-sult of forces and variables external to the client.Thus, in the review, some researchers and otherreports were grouped for consideration in termsof this internal vs. external dichotomy. Fromthe review it appeared that all of these ways oflooking at clients' motivation are useful in cer-tain instances. There are few indications fromthe research that certain approaches or descrip-tive systems are less useful than others. Diffi-culties in measuring all of the needs listed were

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encountered. Further research is necessary in allof the areas considered in the review.

An additional section of this review dealtwith research methodology in general terms. Whilesome of the studies reviewed were of superior de-sign, many suffered from poor measurement tech-niques, the lack of proper controls, and othercontaminating and confounding defects in design.These defects, in most instances, were not point-ed out for the specific studies in this review.Instead in the section on research methodology,characteristics of efficient research design weresuggested.

In the discussion section, certain issues,such as the definition of client motivation, themeaning of the term rehabilitation, and communi-cation among the rehabilitation specialists, werediscussed. Finally, certain over-riding sugges-tions for enhancing client motivation were sug-gested in the last section of the review.

In conclusion the authors assert further andbetter research is unquestionably needed regard-ing client motivation for rehabilitation. Despitethe positive suggestions developed in the review,they think a great deal more needs t, be knownabout the dynamics of rehabilitation.

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Barry, J. R.

Client motivation for rehabilitation, Rehabilita-tion record, 1965, 6, (Jan.-Feb.) 13 - 16.

After mention of the wide variety of mean-ings and difficulties associated with the conceptof motivation, it is defined as, "the extrinsicand intrinsic conditions responsible for varia-tions in the intensity, quality, and direction ofongoing behavior." Some aspects of conscious andunconscious motivation are discussed. Researchon client dependency, disabled client job perfor-mance, and the influence of the client counselorrelationship on the rehabilitation process arecited as examples of motivation related research.In reviewing the research on client motivationpreviously conducted at the University of FloridaRegional Institute, the following three types ofstudies are described: 1) studies of client satis-faction with his environment; 2) studies of atti-tudes and values associated with client motivation,and 3) studies of the manipulation of rewards asa motivating technique.

Barry, J. R.

Patient motivation for rehabilitationThe Cleft Palate Journal, 1965, 2, 62-68.

The nature of the rehabilitation process asit related to cleft palate patients is brieflyconsidered. From a comprehensive review of litera-ture, major motivational concepts were brieflyexplained. The patient's needs and life-situationwere cited as key elements in understanding hismotivations. Studies of motivational problemsamong cleft palate patients were also brieflyreported. Among the several important considera-tions in motivating the patient listed were:

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1) the patient's acceptance of his disability, 2)

his feelings of discomfort and then hope, 3) the

patient's expectancies about rehabilitation and

the expectancies of those in his environment, 4)

the extremely complex relationships between the

patient and his therapists, 5) the kinds and

types of external pressures upon the patient and

6) the availability to the patient of adequate

rehabilitation resources. These considerations

in greater or lesser degree are important in the

rehabilitation of any kind of disability includ-

ing that of the cleft palate and the cleft lip.

A patient's motivation for rehabilitation can be

improved and enhanced by an increased understand-

ing of and attention to these considerations.

Malinovsky, M. R. and Barry, J. R.

"Determinants of work attitudes," Journal of

Applied Psychology, 1965, 49, 446-451.

The motivator-hygiene theory of work attitudes

assumes that two independent sets of variables(motivator and hygiene) are related to employee

job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The appli-

cability of this assumption to the job attitudes

of 117 blue-collar workers was tested through

factor analyses of a 40-item work attitude survey.

The job attitudes of blue-collar workers could be

separated into two relatively independent sets of

variables, comparable to motivator or hygiene

variables. However both sets of variables were

found to be positively related to job satisfaction,

contrary to predictions from Herzberg's Two-Factor

theory.

Bloom, R. and Barry, J. R.

Determinants of work attitudes among NegroesJournal of Applied Psychology, 1967, 51, 291-294.

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The motivator-hygiene theory of work attitudes

assumes that two independent sets of variables de-

termine job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction.

The generality of this theory was tested with re-

sponses from 85 Negro blue-collar workers to a

40-item questionnaire. These data were factor

analyzed and compared with comparable data from

117 white blue-collar workers. The two sets of

factors appeared to differ although some similari-

ties were found. It appeared that hygiene factors

were more important to the Negroes than to the

whites. The two-factor theory may be too simple

to encompass the concepts of job satisfaction and

dissatisfaction, at least in the blue-collar Negro.

The two-factor theory may be less useful when one

considers low-status work.

Noonan, J. and Barry J. R.

Differential effects of incentives among the re-

tarded, Journal of Educational Research, 1967,

61, (3), 108-111.

Normals, institutionalizedretardates, and

non-institutionalizedretardates, matched on the

basis of MA, were tested on a simple performance

task under social and tangible reinforcement con-

titions were believed to reflect differences in

the motivational systems of the groups. The per-

formances of the normals and institutionalized

retardates were very similar, as these two groups

did not perform significantly longer or faster

than each other on the task. The non-institutiona-

lized retardates performed significantly longer

than either of the other two groups, and signifi-

cantly faster than the institutionalized retardate

group. This result was explained in terms of the

greater frustration and failure which these Ss

may experience in their daily lives.

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Barry, J. R., Dunteman, G. H., and Webb, W.

Personality and motivation in rehabilitationJournal of Counseling Psychology, 1968, 237-244.

This study concerned the psychological refe-rents for patient motivation for recovery and re-turn to work. Criterion ratings of this motiva-tion, based upon follow-up data for a VA patientsample who had primarily a physical disabilitywere compared with a variety of psychologicalassessment data obtained one year before the cri-terion data were collected. A factor analysis ofthe assessment data yielded 14 primarily test-specific factors. Strong patient motivation forrecovery and return to work was associated withfavorable attitudes toward self, a small discre-pancy between ratings of real and ideal self,intelligence, attitudes of social restraint, andan interest in people and in getting along withthem.

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OTHER STUDIES

Among the many other areas of inves-tigation pursued by the Institute staffhave always been: 1) manpower and researchutilization, 2) statistical methodologyand 3) studies of personality. With re-spect to manpower and research utilization,two reports by the first Institute nirector,Dean D. J. Mase, are presented here. Stu-dies by the current Institute staff in thisarea are described in the first section ofthis report. As previously mentioned, thistopic is now the Institute's prime area of

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research interest. In addition, one sta-tistical methodology study and three per-sonality studies using the MMPI with par-ents of disturbed children as well as

(alcoholic males are also presented.

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Mase, D. J.

Manpower utilization for the futureJournal of Rehabilitation, 1964, 30 (1), 37-39, 61.

Extensive evidence supporting the need forincreased manpower in the health related profes-sions as well as psychology and other specialtiesis cited. The author asserts that it will be nec-essary to increase the number of people in theseprofessions by 50 to 100 percent and that thisalone will not meet the need unless more effec-tive techniques of manpower utilization are alsoemployed. His main suggestion is that "Wepermit" these professionals to "do what they areuniquely trained and qualified to do, and trainassistants and aides to do" those things whichdo not require extensive abilities. He also in-dicates that time and motion studies as well asthe application of modern management procedureswould do much toward lessening costs and improv-ing the ability of these professions to provideservices. A brief review of the efforts of var-ious professional associations in this connectionis included.

Mase, D. J.

Use of research resources, In Mase, D. J. (Ed.)The Development of research in vocational rehabil-itation: proceedings of a conference on researchin state program development, Gainesville, Fla.:University of Florida, 1961, pp. 72-80.

The principles which guided the work of theUniversity of Florida Regional Rehabilitation Re-search Institute were described. Emphasis was

given to the desired working relationship betweenthe research staff and faculty in the College ofHealth Related Professions. Also discussed were:the urgent need for research leading to new tech-niques and methods for improving the rehabilita-tion process and the barriers to conducting such

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research (unavailability of records, confusion indisability nomenclature, and lack of appropriateclassification systems). The experience obtainedby studying a group of disabled college studentswas used to illustrate the problems of locatingsubjects and securing records. Recommendationsto ameliorate the barriers were made.

Dunteman, G. H.

Graphical procedures for multivariate classifica-tion, Educational & Psychological Measurement1967,

This study presents an outline of a graphi-cal procedure for classifying multivariate ob-servations into two or more groups. For purposesof exposition, it was assumed that there were twogroups of equal size. However, the procedurecould be generalized to three or more groups of un-equal size. The advantage of a graphical pro-cedure is that the magnitude of differences amongand within groups can be easily visualized.

Barry, J. R., Anderson, H. E., Jr., & Thomason,0. B.

MMPI characteristics of alcoholic males who arewell and poorly adjusted in marriage. Journal ofClinical Psychology, 1967, 23, 355-360.

The MMPI was administered to 521 male alcoho-lics. Alcoholics who were better adjusted totheir marriage were seen as less unstable, im-mature, suspicious, depressed, withdrawn, erratic,and anxious and had superior ego strength. Factoranalysis of the correlation matrices of the MMPIscales for three groups were carried out: welladjusted in their marriage, poorly adjusted, anda middle group. Four factors appeared consistentlyin all three analyses. Five MMPI variables, Es,L, A, Hy, and Si, contributed to differentiating

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among the groups when a discriminant analysis was

conducted. However, only 46 percent of the sam-

ple from which the equations were derived could

be correctly identified.

Dunteman, G. H. and Wolking, W. D.

Relationship between martial status and the per-

sonality of mothers of disturbed children

Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1967, 31, 220.

A two group linear discriminant-function anal-

ysis of MMPI profiles of : 1) the divorced and

permanently separated mothers (N=44) of emotional-

ly disturbed children; and 2) those of the married

mothers (N=44) of emotionally disturbed children

failed to demonstrate a significant difference at

the .05 level. Further, a chi-square test indi-

cated that the frequency of behavior disorders

between the two groups was not significantly dif-

ferent at the .05 level. These results, al-

though finding some similar but statistically in-

significant trends, do not otherwise support the

findings for previous parallel studies.

Wolking, D. Dunteman, H., and Bailey, P., Jr.

Multivariate analyses of parents' MMPIs based on

the psychiatric diagnoses of their children

Journal of Consultin9 Psychology, 1967, 31, 521-

524.

The study attempted to determine if the mean

MMPI profiles of the parents of six child diag-

nostic groups were significantly different from

each other. The parents were grouped according

to the diagnoses of their children. Separate

analyses were made for the mothers of males,

mothers of females, fathers of males, and fathers

of females. An overall multivariate test of the

differences in the parents' mean MMPI profiles

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for each of the samples indicated significantdifferences in parent profiles only for themothers of male children. However, the differ-ence for this analysis was not sufficient to helpthe clinician in distinguishing between parentsof normal and clinic groups of children or amongthe parents of several diagnostic groups of clinicchildren.

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Appendix A

REGIONAL REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTESsponsored by

Social and Rehabilitation Service

REGION I - Northeastern UniversityBoston, Massachusetts

Dr. Reuben J. Margolin, Project DirectorDr. George Golden, Research Director

Core area of research: The relationshipbetween motivation and dependency.RD-3017-G

REGION II - New York State School ofIndustrial and LaborRelations

Cornell UniversityIthaca, New York 14850

Dr. William J. Wasmuth, Project DirectorMr. William Button, Research Director

Core area of research: Sheltered work-shops - personnel practices, labor rela-tions, wages, supervisions, etc.- TheHuman Element.RD-2075-0

REGION III - University of MarylandCollege Park, Maryland

Dr. Edmund Crosbey, Project DirectorMr. Auburn J. Lamb, Research Director

Core area of research: Sheltered work-

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shops - materials, equipment, work flow,environmental conditions, etc. - ThePhysical Element.RD-2040-G

REGION IV - University of FloridaGainesville, Florida

Dr. John E. Muthard, Project Director

Core area of research: Personnel utili-zation in rehabilitation services.RD-2870-G

REGION V- Department of Counseling andBehavioral Studies

University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin

Dr. George N. Wright, Project DirectorDr. Alfred Butler, Research Director

Core area of research: Professionalfunctions of rehabilitation counselors.RD-1311-G

REGION VI - University of MissouriColumbia, Missouri

Dr. John McGowan, Project DirectorDr. Joseph Kunce, Research Director

Core area of research: Social, economic,psychological and cultural factors in therehabilitation process, and the interactionbetween clients and professional workers.RD-2326-0

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REGION VII - University of OklahomaNorman, Oklahoma

Dr. Harold Viaile, Project Director

Core area of research: Administration andmanagement in State rehabilitation agencies.RD-1967-0

REGION VIII - University of UtahSalt Lake City, Utah

Dr. William N. McPhee, Project Director

Core area of research: Interpersonalrelations in rehabilitation in rural areas.RD-1437-G

REGION IX - University of WashingtonSeattle, Washington 98105

Dr. Robert W. Macdonald, Project DirectorDr. Manzer J. Griswold, Research Director

Core area of research: Role of the familyin the rehabilitation process.RD-2104-0

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Appendix B

Publications of the University of Florida

Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute

Monographs:

Barry, J. R. and Malinovsky, M. R., ClientMotivation for Rehabilitation: A ReWWW7-Rehabliitation Research monogralirgaTiiNo. 1, 1965. (out of print)

Dunteaan, G. H., Anderson, H.Barry, J. R., Characteristicsin the HealthWerirMS-ilitation Research Monographs2, 1966.

E., Jr., andof Studentsons. eSeries No.

Bibliographies and Indexes:

Bailey, J. P., Jr., and Muthard, J. E.(Eds.) Re its and Articles Resulting frogResearcand Demonstration Pro ects: A

bl ography: 9 8, 19 8.

Dumas, N. S. (Ed.) A Guide to Recent Oper-ations Research, Computer, Management,Busfness, and Other Technical Literaturefor Rehabilitation Personnel: lagoolb7stracts Indexed by Keywords,

Nuthard, J. E., Dumas, N. S., and Bailey,J. P., Jr. (Ids.) A KWIC--Keyword in Con-text- Index of Selected RehabilitationCounseling Literature, 1968.

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Conference Proceedings:

Dumas, N. S. (Ed.), Research Utilizationand Dissemination, 1§68.

Reprints or copies of most of the journalarticles listed in this report are avail-able upon request from the OF -RRRI. Theother RRRI reports listed above are alsoavailable.

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