Perceived Counselor Traits As A Function Of Locus Of Control And Of The Degree Of Facial Hair

Author : Paige Warner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Perceived Gender-related Personality Traits in Initial Supervisory Relationships written by Paige Warner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the psychology of gender is one of the fastest growing domains within counseling psychology (Betz & Fitzgerald, 1993), there has been little investigation of these variables in supervision. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of beginning practicum level supervisees, perceptions of their supervisors' gender-related personality traits (instrumentality and expressiveness) and the discrepancy between their perceptions of their supervisors, gender-related personality traits and the gender-related personality traits they ascribe to people of their supervisor's same sex (gender discrepancy of instrumentality and gender discrepancy of expressiveness) to predict process (supervisory working alliance and supervisee self-disclosure) and outcome (supervision impact and supervisee self-efficacy) measures in the supervisory relationship. Participants for this study were 44 graduate students (12 males and 32 females) with a mean age of 29.0 (SD = 8.6) who were enrolled in their first or second practicum recruited from a number of counseling psychology graduate programs throughout the United States. Specifically, the results indicated that for beginning practicum supervisees, perceived expressiveness significantly predicted the supervisory working alliance, supervisee self-disclosure and supervision impact; perceived instrumentality significantly predicted supervisee self-efficacy. Additionally, perceived instrumentality and expressiveness accounted for moderate to quite high proportions of variance (R 2 ranging from. 38 to. 52), suggesting that they are important variables in supervision. Gender discrepancy of expressiveness and gender discrepancy of instrumentality were significantly related to several of the process and outcome variables. However, when the other gender-related variables (i.e., expressiveness and instrumentality) were entered into the same models, the discrepancy variables did not add significant unique variance beyond instrumentality and expressiveness, nor did the discrepancy variables add enough variance to be included in a general predictive model. The implications for these results are discussed, as well as suggestions for future research.