Emotional Intelligence and Implications for Counseling Self-Efficacy: Phase II

✍ Scribed by Crystal Easton; William E. Martin Jr.; Sheilah Wilson

• Book ID: 102287084
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 133 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-0035
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2008.tb00053.x

✦ Synopsis

The authors present Phase II of a 9‐month study of the relationship between emotional intelligence and counseling self‐efficacy. One‐hundred eighteen counselors‐in‐training and professional counselors completed the Counseling Self‐Estimate Inventory (COSE) and Emotional Judgment Inventory (EJI). There was a significant correlation between 2 of the EJI scales (Identifying Own Emotions and Identifying Others' Emotions) and 4 of the 5 COSE scales. Students' perceived counseling self‐efficacy showed a significant gain when compared with that of professional counselors over the 9‐month period. Results support findings of Phase I (W. E. Martin, C. Easton, S. Wilson, M. Takemoto, & S. Sullivan, 2004), which indicated that emotional intelligence may be a unique construct inherent in persons who are preparing for careers as professional counselors.