Author: Erica Denise WadePublisher:
ISBN: 9781088302255
Category : Counseling psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The focus of this study was to explore the relationships among racial identity development, impostor phenomenon, and counseling self-efficacy among counseling graduate students of color. There is evidence supporting the importance of a client's racial identity. However, there is limited research exploring the impacts of a counselor's racial identity and the development of counseling self-efficacy (Tomlinson-Clarke, 2013; Holcomb-McCoy, Hines, & Johnston, 2008; Owens, Bodenhorn, & Bryant, 2010; Crockett & Hays, 2015). The following research questions were used to provide a frame of inquiry for this study and each research question pertained to counseling graduate students of color: (1) What are the relationships among racial identity attitudes, impostor phenomenon, and counseling self-efficacy?; (2) Does the impostor phenomenon predict each component of counselor self-efficacy (microskills, attending to counseling process, dealing with difficult client behaviors, cultural competence, and awareness of values)?; (3) Do elements of racial identity attitudes (assimilation, miseducation, self-hatred, anti-dominant, ethnocentricity, multiculturalist inclusive, and ethnic-racial salience) predict impostor phenomenon? (4) Do racial identity attitudes have indirect effects on counseling self-efficacy, as mediated by impostor phenomenon? A non-experimental survey design was utilized, and correlational methods were used to determine the separate and collective variations between outcome and predictor variables. The internet-based survey consisted of an informed consent, a demographic questionnaire, the Cross Ethnic-Racial Identity Scale-A (CERIS-A), Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS), and Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory Scale (COSE). A Pearson's correlation and a series of multiple regression analyses were performed to examine the relationships and predictive effect of racial identity attitudes and impostor phenomenon scores on the outcome of counseling self-efficacy. The results revealed that there was a relationship between racial identity attitudes and counseling self-efficacy among counseling graduate students of color. In addition, the analyses indicated that impostor phenomenon does not predict counseling self-efficacy or racial identity attitudes, but there was a correlational relationship between the counseling self-efficacy subscale (cultural competence) and impostor phenomenon scores. Finally, limitations, recommendations for future research, and implications for counselor training programs were presented.