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Effects of Tape‐Recording & Supervisory Evaluation on Counselor Trainee Anxiety Levels
Author(s) -
BOWMAN JAMES T.,
ROBERTS GAYLE T.
Publication year - 1979
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.1556-6978.1979.tb00900.x
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , session (web analytics) , supervisor , psychiatry , world wide web , computer science , political science , law
Fifty‐three in‐service employment and rehabilitation counselors, enrolled in supervised counseling practica, participated in a study to assess their subjective and physiological anxiety responses to counseling under different stimulus conditions. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions: a counseling session, a counseling session that was tape‐recorded, a counseling session that was tape‐recorded and evaluated by their supervisor, and a control condition in which participants read an article on counseling. Results of the 4 treatment conditions × 3 period analyses of variance for subjective (p <.001) and conductance data (p <.05) indicated that participants who counseled had higher anxiety levels than those who read the article. There was no treatment effect found for heart rate data. None of the counseling groups experienced significantly more anxiety than any of the others. It was concluded that tape‐recording and supervisory evaluation do not increase the anxiety levels of participants over the levels experienced while counseling without recording and/or evaluation.