TPC-Journal-V2-Issue1

The Professional Counselor \Volume 2, Issue 1 75 Results Subscale Cronbach alphas for our data are .85 (Relating to Others), .57 (New Possibilities), .59 (Personal Strength), .88 (Spiritual Change), and .77 (Appreciation of Life). The male mean PTGI score of 65.71 ( SD = 12.27) is less than the female mean of 70.02 ( SD = 11.50), but not significantly less, t (106) = 1.93, p = .056, α = .05 (2-tail). A single significant gender difference was found among subscale scores between the male mean RTO score, M = 21.27 ( SD = 6.05) and the corresponding female mean, M = 24.46 ( SD = 5.51), t (106) = 2.87, p = .005, α = .01 (Bonferroni-corrected 2-tail). Subsequent analyses of PTGI scores in the sample of the current study are based on the combined scores shown in Table 3. No gender differences were suggested by the results of independent t -tests of corresponding male and female percentages of total, academic, or non-academic growth, respectively, for any college year, α = .0125 (Bonferroni- corrected 2-tail for each set of 4 analyses). Therefore, subsequent analyses of percentages of growth are based on the combined scores in Table 4. Table 3 contains the descriptive statistics for the sample of Study 2. A visual comparison of the contents of Table 3 with those of Table 1 shows that all corresponding entries are approximately equal. Table 4 documents mean attributions of substantial levels of personal growth to both academic and non-academic experiences for each of four years. The mean attribution to non-academic experiences exceeds the mean attribution to academic experiences for every year. The greatest mean growth is attributed to the senior year; the least is attributed to the sophomore year. Table 3 Personal Growth Scores (N = 108): Descriptive Statistics (total and per-item basis) Note. S Subscales: 1 Relating to Others, 2 New Possibilities, 3 Personal Strength, 4 Spiritual Change, 5 Appreciation of Life, 6 total. Total Per-item Subscale inter-correlations S M SD M SD 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 23.01 5.96 3.29 .85 -- .36 .34 .39 .55 .86 2 17.83 3.18 3.57 .64 -- .42 .31 .30 .66 3 14.55 2.71 3.64 .68 -- .25 .35 .63 4 2.63 2.39 1.31 1.19 -- .35 .60 5 9.99 2.40 3.33 .80 -- .70 6 68.01 12.01 3.24 .57 --