Identity and counsellor preference†

† Portions of this article were presented as a poster session at the Great Lakes Counselling Psychology Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, April 2005.

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship of identity development, measured by the Self-Identity Inventory (SII), universal-diverse orientation (UDO), measured by the Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale- Short (M-GUDS-S), to counsellor preference in a sample of 365 university students. After controlling for personal identity demographic variables, multiple regression analysis indicated SII and UDO accounted for significant additional variance in counsellor preference with Immersion (SII Scale 3), Relativistic Appreciation (MGUDS-S Subscale 2) and Comfort with Differences (MGUDS-S Subscale 3), identified as significant unique predictors. A canonical correlation analysis performed with 11 individual counsellor preference variables as criterion variables and 9 identity salience variables as predictor variables to explore the relationships between identity salience and counsellor preference yielded three significant canonical functions.

† Portions of this article were presented as a poster session at the Great Lakes Counselling Psychology Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, April 2005.

Keywords:

• identity
• counsellor
• perference
• counsellor characteristics

Notes

† Portions of this article were presented as a poster session at the Great Lakes Counselling Psychology Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, April 2005.