counselors' collective self-esteem mediates job dissatisfaction and client relationships

✍ Scribed by Kumlan Yu; Sang-Hee Lee; Sang Min Lee

• Book ID: 102288745
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0787
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2007.tb00035.x

✦ Synopsis

Given the central role of professional identity (i.e., collective self‐esteem in this study), the authors examined whether collective self‐esteem mediated or moderated relations between job dissatisfaction and client relationships in a sample of 132 professional counselors in the United States. Results indicated that collective self‐esteem partially mediated the relationship between job dissatisfaction and client relationships. Furthermore, job dissatisfaction was negatively related to greater levels of private collective self‐esteem, and greater private collective self‐esteem was positively related to better client relationships.