TPC Journal V7, Issue 2 - FULL ISSUE

The Professional Counselor | Volume 7, Issue 2 135 analysis revealed relationships among school counseling experience and the main predictor variables that were of interest in this study. For example, years of experience showed a significant, although small, negative correlation to attachment anxiety ( r = -.14, p < .05). Both attachment anxiety and avoid- ance showed negative correlations to self-efficacy ( r = -.20 and -.15, p < .05, respectively). Lastly, self- efficacy showed a small positive correlation with years of experience ( r = .25, p < .05) and ASCA National Model use ( r =.27, p < .05). Self-Efficacy Predicting Actual and Preferred Intervention and Other Activities Multiple hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to determine if self-efficacy was positively associated with actual and preferred intervention activities, after controlling for demographic variables (see Table 1). Self-efficacy was the predictor variable and actual and preferred intervention activities were the criterion variables in separate analyses. Because years of experience, ASCA National Model training and ASCA National Model use were correlated with the SCARS criterion variables, these control variables were entered as a block prior to entering self-efficacy beliefs. The model for actual activities was significant: F (1, 506) = 112.37, p < .05, supporting the hypothesis. The standardized beta between self-efficacy and actual intervention activities was .40 and the effect size based on the adjusted R 2 statistic indicated that 37% of the variance in actual activities was accounted for by self-efficacy, after blocking for the control variables, a large effect size. Results for preferred school counselor activities showed a similar result, as the model for preferred activities also was significant: F (1, 506) = 78.59, p < .05. The standardized beta between self-efficacy and preferred intervention activities was .39, and the adjusted R2 indicated 15% of the variance in preferred activities was accounted for by self-efficacy, after blocking for the control variables, a medium effect size. Table 1. Results from hierarchical multiple regression using self-efficacy to predict SCARS actual and preferred intervention activities Block 1 Block 2 Predictor Variable B SE B β B SE B β Actual Experience (years) 0.01 0.00 0.20* 0.01 0.01 0.10* A.N.M. Training -0.02 0.03 -0.60 -0.02 0.03 -0.03 A.N.M. Use 0.22 0.02 0.44* 0.17 0.02 0.34* Self-Efficacy 0.45 0.04 0.40* R 2 0.23 0.37 F for change in R 2 50.46* 112.37** Preferred Experience (Years) 0.00 0.00 0.04 -0.00 0.00 -0.05 A.N.M. Training -0.00 0.03 -0.01 -0.01 0.03 -0.01 A.N.M. Use 0.06 0.02 0.15* 0.02 0.02 0.05 Self-Efficacy 0.37 0.04 0.39** R 2 0.02 0.15 F for change in R 2 3.92* 78.59* Note: Analysis N = 511 (actual & preferred); * p < .05. A.N.M. denotes ASCA National Model.