TPC Journal V7, Issue 2 - FULL ISSUE

The Professional Counselor | Volume 7, Issue 2 137 attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance as the predictor variables and the discrepancy score variables that were created by subtracting the actual from the preferred scores for the actual and preferred intervention activities and “other” activities subscales. As before, years of experience, ASCA National Model training and ASCA National Model use were correlated with the SCARS criterion variables and were entered as a block prior to entering the attachment variables. For intervention activities, a relationship was not supported for either attachment anxiety or attachment avoidance. However for the “other” non-counseling activities, a relationship between attachment anxiety and the actual/preferred discrepancy revealed a statistically significant result over and above that accounted for by demographic variables: F (1, 505) = 3.16, p < .05 with a standardized beta of .12. Therefore, attachment anxiety predicted a discrepancy that revealed a higher preference for performing “other” non-counseling activities. However, the effect size showed that anxiety accounted for only 1% of the variance in the “other” activities discrepancy score (see Table 3). Table 3 Results from hierarchical multiple regression using attachment to predict SCARS intervention scores and the actual/prefer discrepancy scores for intervention and “other” activities Block 1 Block 2 Block 1 Block 2 Predictor Variable B SE B β B SE B β B SE B β B SE B β Intervention Actual Intervention Discrepancy Experience (years) 0.01 0.00 0.20* 0.02 0.00 0.19* -0.01 0.00 -0.18* -0.01 0.00 -0.18* A.N.M. Training -0.02 0.03 -0.03 -0.02 0.02 -0.02 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.02 A.N.M. Use 0.22 0.02 0.44* 0.22 0.02 0.44* -0.16 0.02 -0.34* 0.16 0.02 0.34* Anxiety -0.03 0.02 -0.06 -0.01 0.02 -0.03 Avoidance 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.00 0.02 -0.01 R 2 0.23 0.00 0.15 0.00 F for change in R 2 50.46* 0.34 29.69* 0.33 Intervention Preferred “Other” Discrepancy Experience (years) 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.03 0.02 0.04 0.03 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.04 A.N.M. Training 0.00 0.03 -0.01 0.00 0.03 0.00 -0.61 0.31 -0.10* -0.57 0.31 -0.09 A.N.M. Use 0.06 0.02 0.15* 0.06 0.02 0.14* 0.57 0.24 0.12* 0.57 0.23 0.12* Anxiety -0.05 0.02 -0.11* -0.58 0.23 0.12* Avoidance 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.29 0.25 0.06 R 2 0.02 0.01 0.02 0.01 F for change in R 2 3.92* 2.6 3.21* 3.16* Note: Analysis N = 511 (actual & preferred); * p < .05. A.N.M. denotes ASCA National Model.