Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of empathy, interpretation, advice-giving and probing by examining student reactions of two anxiety levels who viewed videotaped, roleplayed counseling situations. After measuring 3 trait-state anxiety of 300 undergraduates, 18 subjects with high trait-state and 18 subjects with low trait-state anxiety were selected for this experiment. Through the use of videotapes, each subject was asked to evaluate the degree of the approach, attachment and withdrawl reactions on the 11-point rating scale. The result was that anxious subject showed approach reaction to empathy and advice-giving more than interpretation and probing. In the case of approach reaction to interpretation, the anxious subjects did not show higher approach reaction than non-anxious subjects. But the anxious subjects shoved more attack, withdrawl reactions than non-anxious subjects. And the anxious subjects showed lower approach reaction than non-anxious subjects to probing, but the anxious subjects showed higher attack, withdrawl reactions than non-anxious subjects. The non-anxious subjects showed more approach reaction to interpretation and probing than attack and withdrawl, reactions, but the anxious subjects showed no difference in the approach, attack, and withdrawl reactions.