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Counselor‐in‐Training Response to a Male and Female Client: An Analogue Study Exploring Sex‐Role Stereotyping
Author(s) -
BURLIN FRANCESDEE,
PEARSON RICHARD
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1978.tb01074.x
Subject(s) - psychology , action (physics) , social psychology , applied psychology , developmental psychology , quantum mechanics , physics
This analogue study investigated the similarities and differences of response by male and female counselors‐in‐training to clients of their own sex and clients of the opposite sex. The Counseling Response Instrument (CRI) was administered to the 127 participants. The CRI includes a description of a client seeking assistance with a personal‐educational choice conflict and asks the respondents for their personal view of the most appropriate action for the client (opinion measure), as well as the counseling strategy that they would use were they actually working with the client (strategy measure). We developed two forms of the CRI that were identical except that in one the client was presented as a male (Jim) and in the other as a female (Donna). Although different response patterns were found between male and female counselors, the results were not in the direction of traditional sex‐role stereotyping. On the strategy measure both male and female counselors most often chose the facilitative option.