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Factor structure and measurement invariance of employment counselors’ use of discretionary power and differences based on gender, training, and experience
Counselling Psychology Quarterly Pub Date : 2019-11-11 , DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2019.1687424
Pascal Rickert 1 , Boris Forthmann 1 , Joscha Kärtner 1
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ABSTRACT

The present study contributes to the further development of mandatory employment counseling practice by creating a new measure to describe differences in counselors’ use of discretionary power. The measure categorizes counselors’ acting and thinking into concrete counseling behavior as well as prioritizations of goals and topics for the counseling process. Behavior is specified into participation, appreciation, transparency, directivity, and active conflict resolution. Goals and topics are subdivided into client- and control-orientation. CFA showed an excellent fit of this model on data from 771 German employment counselors. Additional analyses revealed strict measurement invariance for gender, training, and experience, making the presented measure equally applicable for female and male counselors, as well as for counselors with different training and experience backgrounds. Further, latent mean comparisons revealed that gender had no effect on counselors’ use of discretionary power, but better trained counselors rated themselves as less directive compared to more experienced counselors, who also put more emphasis on control-orientated goals and less emphasis on client-orientated topics. The presented measure and results can be used in employment agencies for supervision and training to sensitize employment counselors for their individual use of discretionary power and enable future research on best practice in employment counseling.



中文翻译:

就业顾问使用酌处权的因素结构和度量不变性以及基于性别,培训和经验的差异

摘要

本研究通过创建一种新的方法来描述顾问在使用自由裁量权方面的差异,为强制性就业咨询实践的进一步发展做出了贡献。该措施将辅导员的行为和思维分类为具体的辅导行为以及目标主题的优先级为辅导过程。行为被指定为参与,赞赏,透明,方向性和积极解决冲突。目标和主题分为以客户为导向和以控制为导向。CFA在来自771名德国就业顾问的数据中显示了该模型的极佳拟合度。进一步的分析表明,性别,培训和经验对度量的严格性不变,从而使提出的度量同样适用于女性和男性辅导员,以及具有不同培训和经验背景的辅导员。此外,潜在的均值比较显示,性别对咨询师的酌处权使用没有影响,但与经验丰富的咨询师相比,训练有素的咨询师认为自己的指导作用较小,他们也更加注重以控制为导向的目标,而较少强调以客户为导向的主题。提出的措施和结果可在职业介绍所中进行监督和培训,以使职业顾问对个人使用酌处权的意识提高,并使将来对职业咨询最佳做法的研究成为可能。

更新日期:2019-11-11
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