This exploratory study examined attitudes toward professional psychological services and help provider characteristics among 232 self-identified Italian and Greek American college students in 3 Northeast colleges. Regarding general attitudes toward psychological services in the Italian American sample, women had a greater recognition of personal need for help and higher confidence in the ability of mental health professionals to meet these needs than did men. With regard to preferred counselor demographic characteristics, regardless of gender, lower acculturated Italian American students had a stronger preference for seeing an ethnically similar counselor. With the Greek American sample, there was an interaction effect between acculturation level and gender on attitudes toward services. Among the higher acculturated Greek students, women were more open regarding their personal concerns than men; however, within the lower acculturated cohort, no gender differences were found. With regard to counselor characteristic variables, and similar to Italian Americans, regardless of gender, lower acculturated Greek Americans had a stronger preference for seeing an ethnically similar counselor to discuss a personal problem. Limitations and implications for further research are noted.

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The major purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the forces of modernization and the attitudes of college students toward mate selection. It is assumed that the younger generation tends to be more receptive toward change and more liberal than the older generation and hence the younger people would serve as a barometer to assess the changes in the family structure, especially arranged marriages. The traditional norms require the elders to arrange marriages for their children. Data were collected in the Summer of 1973 from a sample of 182 junior and senior college students in Hyderabad, India. For the measurement of attitudes toward arranged marriages, we resorted to the scales developed by J. Henry Korson. Eight socio-economic and demographic characteristics were selected to examine their relationship with the attitudes toward mate selection. An analysis of responses to the question on mate selection indicates that male students, non-Brahmins, Hindus and the students from high income families tend to be more liberal and express more independent attitudes in higher proportion than their counterparts. An overwhelming majority of the students would like to have the opportunity to meet their future spouse while only about one-fifth of the student body supports the traditional practice of not meeting future spouse before marriage. In general, the study reveals that a significant number of students appear ready to exercise some decision-making power in the process of mate selection, thereby challenging the traditional norms.

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