Dissertation
Spirituality and race in the counseling preferences of African American adults
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
05/2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005581
Abstract
Research on counseling preferences of African American adults was extended to include spirituality as a counseling variable. This study investigated the effects of African American spiritual identification and counselor characteristics (i.e., race and spirituality) on favorability ratings in determining counselor preference among African American adults. Respondents included 205 African American adults who completed the TRIOS Spirituality Subscale (Jones, 2003), an assessment of African American spirituality that is a part of the full TRIOS-C Index, and rated and responded to 4 vignettes describing different counseling conditions using the Counselor Favorability Questionnaire (CFQ; Want, 1995). Data was analyzed using a Repeated Measures MANCOVA for main and interaction effects. This study provides support for similar race counselor preference among African American adults. In consideration of within-group variability, this study found that African American participants with a higher level of spiritual identification expressed a much stronger preference for an African American counselor compared to a Caucasian American counselor. This study did not find a preference based on the counselor variable of spirituality and no support was found for the interactions between race of counselor, spiritual encouragement by counselor, and participants' level of spiritual identification.
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- Title
- Spirituality and race in the counseling preferences of African American adults
- Creators
- Talitha Parish Easterly
- Contributors
- Laurie D. McCubbin (Chair)Tim A Church (Committee Member)PAULA GROVES PRICE (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- College of Education
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 88
- Identifiers
- 99901054534501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation