The relationship among personality, professional identity, self-efficacy, and professional counselor advocacy actions.
Year: 2016
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Through advocacy over approximately three decades the counseling profession has achieved professional rights and benefits of other mental health providers (e.g., licensure nationwide, third party reimbursement).However, professional counselors continue to encounter barriers that hinder providing services to those in need of mental health services.There is a consensus among counselors that continued profession-focused advocacy actions are important to the profession, yet there is no comprehensive model of advocacy and little is known about the characteristics of successful advocates.This empirical study controlled for relevant demographic variables while examining the predictive relationship of personality traits, self-efficacy, and professional identity on advocacy actions among licensed professional counselors (N = 207).Advocacy actions were studied using an ecological approach, including micro-level, meso-level, and macro-level advocacy actions.Findings of three hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that the overall model of personality traits, self-efficacy, and professional identity predicted advocacy actions in all levels of advocacy actions.When controlling for other independent variables in the model, micro-level advocacy actions were predicted by the personality trait Intellect and the demographic variable years of experience.Meso-level advocacy actions were predicted by the personality trait Extraversion and professional identity variable knowledge of the profession.Macro-level advocacy actions were predicted only by the professional identity variable knowledge of the profession.These findings indicated that the variables studied here made unique and CHAPTER I
Author: Melanie Kautzman-East
Institution: University of Akron
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2619884688