Student Socioeconomic Status and Gender: Impacts on School Counselors' Ratings of Student Personal Characteristics and School Counselors' Self-Efficacy.
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This research focused on how students' socioeconomic status and gender impact school counselors' ratings of student personal characteristics and school counselor selfefficacy.While previous literature focuses on how students' socioeconomic status and gender impact school counselors' ratings of academic characteristics such as ability and potential (Auwarter & Aruguete, 2008a), research into how these factors impact ratings of personal characteristics is limited.Also, although research on how students' socioeconomic status and gender impact teacher self-efficacy is available (Auwarter & Aruguete, 2008b;Childs & McKay, 2001), research into how these factors impact school counselor self-efficacy is not.Two 2 x 2 factorial ANOVA's were computed in order to determine if any significant differences exist between school counselors' ratings of student personal characteristics and school counselor self-efficacy based on student socioeconomic status and gender or the interaction of student socioeconomic status and gender.The findings of the research indicate there was a significant difference in school counselors' ratings of self-efficacy based on student socioeconomic status.There were no significant mean differences in school counselors' ratings of student personal characteristics based on student socioeconomic status or gender and there was no
Author: Dorea Glance
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2472234891