JORDANIAN COUNSELOR TRAINEE'S SELF-EFFICACY AND PERFORMANCE: THE IMPACTS OF SUPERVISION
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
This study aims to investigate both counselor self-efficacy (CSE), and how it impacts counselor's ability to perform effectively counseling tasks among a sample of Jordanian counseling students in training. It also aims to examine conditions in supervision that best lead to having more of this counselor characteristic. In addition, as the world grows smaller and cultures begin to merge, it is imperative to validate the usefulness of Western counseling theories and approaches to cultures that are very different from the West. Ninety-seven supervisor-supervisee dyads participated in this study. Supervisees completed the following measures of supervision's elements and CSE: the Supervisory Working Alliance-Trainee Inventory (SWAI-T; Efstation, Patton, & Kardash, 1990); The Evaluation Process within Supervision Inventory (EPSI; Lehrman-Waterman & Ladany, 2001); The Supervision Satisfaction Questionnaire (SSQ; Ladany, Hill, Corbett, & Nutt, 1996); and The Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory (COSE) (Larson et al., 1992). Counselor performance was measured by supervisors' ratings their supervisees on the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scales (CERS; Myrick & Kelly, 1971). Scales were translated to Arabic, validity and reliability studies were conducted. Results showed that supervision components were predictive of CSE, with evaluation process within supervision proved to be the most important predictor and explained a unique (32%) of the variance in the CSE, followed by supervision satisfaction (8%). In contrast to the hypothesized strong relationship between supervisory working alliance and counselor selfefficacy, SWAI-T did not predict COSE above and beyond the effects of other supervision elements. CSE was positively related to counselor performance (CERS) from the supervisor’s perspective, and there was partial support for the hypothesized mediation by CSE of the relationships between components of supervision (except the supervisory working alliance) and counselor performance, specifically, COSE mediated the significant relationship between EPSI, SSQ and counselor performance. Also, study identified trainees' characteristics as significant predictors of counseling self-efficacy. The results suggest that counseling self-efficacy may be an important variable in the development of key counselor training outcomes. The results have implications for counselor education, and supervision practice. Further research using different research methodology is needed to provide more empirical support for these findings.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Jehad Alaedein Zawawi| Associate Professor. P. O. Box: 5481, Amman, 11183, Jordan. Email: Jehadala@hu.edu.jo Tel. No: 00962795588003, Dr. Tagreed Mousa Al-Ali. | Assistant Professor. Department of Educational Psychology, Hashemite University, Jordan. Email: TMFAl-Ali@hu.edu.jo
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