Relation among Clients’ Counseling Expectations, Perceptions of the Counselor Credibility and the Initial Working Alliance.

• Main Authors: Sheng-shiou Yuan, 袁聖琇
• Other Authors: Ching-Fu Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8wpt45

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation among client counseling expectations, and their ratings of counselor credibility, and the initial working alliance. One hundred twenty-one clients seeking individual counseling at university counseling center in Taiwan completed the Expectation about Counseling –Brief Form (Tinsley, 1982) prior to their first counseling session, and the social influence inventory (clients’ perceptions of counselor credibility) and the working alliance Inventory(WAI, Horvath & Greenberg, 1989; C. -F. Chen translated to Chinese, 1995) after their second session. The main research results are as follows: 1.Counseling clients are more expectations about the genuineness, tolerance and trustworthiness of counselors and concreteness in counseling process; but relatively low expectation are about the motivation, openness of clients’ behavior, and directiveness and self-disclosure of counselors’ behavior. 2.There’s different of clients to perception between male and female counselors attractiveness of credibility. The female clients perceived lower attractiveness of male counselors than female counselors, but no difference with male clients. 3.Results of canonical correlation analysis revealed that counseling expectations, counselor credibility and working alliance were correlated. The more Clients’ expectations about counseling, the more perceived counselor credibility and the working alliance. The more clients perceived counselor credibility, the more rating the working alliance. 4.The results of regression analyses revealed that clients’ expectations for personal commitment predicted the task, bond, and goal dimensions of the working alliance; expectations for facilitative conditions predicted the WAI bond rating. Clients’ perceptions counselor expertness and attractiveness predicted the goal and task dimensions of the working alliance; Clients’ perceptions counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness predicted the WAI bond rating. 5.The test the counseling expectation and initial working alliance hypothesis model in which the counselor credibility was a mediator. Clients’ expectation of counseling through the perceived counselor credibility indirectly affect the formation of alliance, the effect size is 0.42. and clients’ expectation of counseling directly affect the formation of alliance, the effect size is 0.23 (p < .05). It revealed that counselor credibility might mediate the relation between counseling expectation and initial work alliance. Implications for counseling practice and recommendations for future research are discussed.