TPC Journal V7, Issue 2 - FULL ISSUE

The Professional Counselor | Volume 7, Issue 2 121 Further data cleaning was necessary for participants who completed more than 70–100% of the SOCCS or MC-C. For those who omitted one to eight items ( n = 89) on the SOCCS or one to three items on the MC-C ( n = 8), mean imputation accounted for missing items (Montiel-Overall, 2006). Of those 89 cases that were modified using mean imputation for the SOCCS, 61 participants had omitted only one item and 12 omitted only two items. The remaining 16 participants omitted three to seven items. Results The purpose of the study was to investigate the following factors as they relate to and predict LGB-affirmative counselor competence: counselor self-identified religiosity, spirituality, education level, counseling experience with LGB clients and LGB interpersonal contact. To answer the research questions, correlational analysis, multiple regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were conducted. The researcher completed post-hoc power analyses using G*power at the .05 level of statistical significance. The effect size and achieved power is reported for each analysis. For Research Question 1, a correlational matrix presents the relationships among all variables in Table 2. There was a significant, although weak, correlation between LGB-affirmative counselor competence and social desirability ( r2 = -.15, p < .01). This suggests that the SOCCS results were not significantly inflated by social desirability. Table 2 Correlation Matrix for Main Study Variables Variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1. MC-C - -.15** -.06 -.28** -.05 .08 .10* -.03 -.06 -.01 2. SOCCS Total - .57** .62** .88** -.30** -.04 .31** .35** .24** 3. Attitudes - .12* .27** -.47** -.31** .08 .11* .18** 4. Knowledge - .35** -.17** .04 .16** .05 .17** 5. Skill - -.11* .08 .34** .45** .18** 6. Religiosity - .60** -.01 .03 -.12* 7. Spirituality - .07 .11* -.04 8. Education - .22** .06 9. LGB clients - .10 10. LGB interpersonal - Note . MC-C = Marlow Crowne Social Desirability Scale - Short Form C; SOCCS Total = Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale Total score; Attitudes = SOCCS Attitudinal Awareness Subscale; Knowledge = SOCCS Knowledge Subscale; Skill = SOCCS Skill Subscale; Religiosity = self-identified religiosity measure; Spirituality = self-identified spirituality measure; Education = highest degree earned in counseling; LGB clients = number of LGB clients counseled; LGB interpersonal = number of LGB friends/relatives