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180 The Professional Counselor \Volume 3, Issue 3 Table 2 Total Means for the Five Domains from Most to Least Role Diffusion Domain M SD Personal-Social 21.13 6.62 Support 20.63 8.77 Career 19.41 7.40 Academic 19.28 6.78 Direct Counseling* 14.12 3.82 Note. Direct counseling items were rated as significantly less role-diffused than the other domains. * p < .05. Table 3 Zero-Order Correlation Matrix of the Role Diffusion Ratings Across the Five Domains Variable 1 2 3 4 5 1. Academic — .82** .75** .67** .51** 2. Career — .71** .62** .45** 3. Personal-Social — .51** .55** 4. Support — .37** 5. Direct Counseling — Note. N = 109; ** p < .01. Graduate counseling students enrolled in two sections of a course on Ethics and Legal Issues in Counseling and in two sections of a pre-practicum course at a large southwestern university were invited to participate in the study. After a review of informed consent, copies of the instrument were provided to participants and the researchers were available to answer questions as needed. A total of 120 students were eligible to participate, with a response rate of 109 (91%) completed instruments. Results Least and Most Role-Diffused School Counselor Duties In order to address the first two research questions, a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to test for differences between the levels of role diffusion among the five domains. Ratings of role diffusion differed significantly across the five domains ( F (1, 107) = 7.81, p < .0005, η 2 = .63) indicating a large strength of association between the variables under study. More specifically, the results suggest that the five domains account for approximately 63% of the variability in the ratings of role diffusion. Overall, results indicated that Direct Counseling was rated as significantly less role diffused (i.e., requiring more unique skills) than the other four domains (see Table 2 for means). Fisher’s Protected t -test analyses with the Bonferroni adjustment to obviate the family-wise Type I error rate inflation were requested to more adequately ascertain differences across the five domains with respect to role diffusion ratings. Results demonstrated that the ratings between