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Selection of nonprofessional child aides for a school mental health project

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School mental health professionals showed substantial agreement in their interview judgments of the personal characteristics of women applying for positions as child aides in a program for primary graders evidencing school maladjustment problems. The 56 selected women were rated significantly higher than the 39 women who were turned down on all 18 judged interview characteristics. Factor analysis suggested that specific item discriminations were probably due to an overall “liking” factor that raters applied in their judgments of particular attributes.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, New York

    Emory L. Cowen Ph.D. &  Darwin A. Dorr Ph.D.

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The participation of Miss Pokracki was made possible through her appointment as an NSF Summer Research Assistant. The work reported in this paper was supported by an NIMH grant (MH 11820-01) from the Pilot and Experimental Training Branch.

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Cowen, E.L., Dorr, D.A. & Pokracki, F. Selection of nonprofessional child aides for a school mental health project. Community Ment Health J 8, 220–226 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01435084

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