Date of Award

1-1-2014

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

Program

Counseling Psychology

Content Description

1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Myrna L Friedlander

Committee Members

LaRae M Jome, Hung-Bin Sheu

Keywords

counseling self-efficacy, counselor performance, performance, self-efficacy, therapeutic alliance, working alliance, Self-efficacy, Counselor trainees, Counselors, Family psychotherapy, Family therapists

Subject Categories

Counseling Psychology

Abstract

The present study investigated the influence of self-efficacy (SE) on performance in a counseling-related task. Specifically, four experimental self-efficacy (SE) groups were compared in their performance using the SOFTA-o (Friedlander, Escudero, & Heatherington, 2006) to identify clients' alliance-related behaviors in a videotaped vignette of a simulated family therapy session. Following a baseline trial with a similar vignette (Trial 1), 112 counselor trainees were randomly assigned to receive no feedback (Control) or bogus comparison feedback indicating that their Trial 1 performance was superior (High SE), similar (Mildly Negative/average SE), or poor (Low SE) relative to peers. Correspondingly, the experiment tested three competing hypotheses about whether high, average, or low levels of self-efficacy differentially affected participants' task performance in Trial 2.

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