90 clients rated the meaning of "me," "the ideal student," "my future occupation" and "education" on evaluative scales from the Semantic Differential before and after brief counseling. The clients were placed in high, medium and low groups of 30 each according to degree of similarity in values between the client and his counselor; and the groups were compared for average change in the evaluative meaning of each of the concepts. Differences among the three groups were not significant for "me" and "the ideal student." But the differences for "education" and "my future occupation" suggested a curvilinear relationship with the medium similarity group showing a more positive change in meaning than the high or low groups.

Granger (1959) demonstrated that psychologists perceive a prestige hierarchy of occupations in their own field. Tins study was an attempt to determine if the perception of the hierarchy was unique to psychologists. Granger's original questionnaire (consisting of 20 psychological occupations to be ranked according to prestige) was given to a sample of University students, who were grouped as "naive (N -111)" or "advanced (N = 73)" in terms ol psychulug.c.il training and identification with the field. The rankings of "naive" and "advanced" students wcie compared to those of Granger's APA random sample, the three hierarchies were sufficiently similar to indicate that the perception of the hierarchy is not determined by training, experience cr ego involvement with ps>chology.