Program and personal factors as predictors of spiritual competence

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Program and personal factors as predictors of spiritual competence

Statement of responsibility

Brandy Sheri Peoples

Creator

• Peoples, Brandy Sheri, 1980-

Contributor

• Barber, Carolyn E.

Author

• Peoples, Brandy Sheri, 1980-

Subject

• Electronic dissertations
• Psychology, Religious
• Counseling -- Religious aspects
• Spirituality -- Psychology
• Dissertation -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Counseling psychology

Genre

• Electronic dissertations

Language

eng

Summary

Many Americans who value their religious/spiritual beliefs tend to rely on their faith as a means of coping with difficult situations. When seeking therapy, these individuals prefer counselors who can help them resolve their spirituality oriented concerns. Because of this, spiritual competence is essential and should be addressed throughout counselor training. The present study focuses on counseling students' training experiences in and attitudes toward religious/spiritual diversity, with the overall goal being to substantiate the claim that program and personal factors can influence the development of spiritual competence. Programmatic factors such as program openness to spiritual content and spiritual issues in supervision were examined. Additionally, personal factors that include the quest religious orientation, cognitive orientation toward spirituality, and openness to experience were also investigated. It was hypothesized that a significant positive association exists between factors. It was also believed that each factor would predict and account for a significant amount of variance in spiritual competence above and beyond covariates such as religious affiliation and gender. Finally, cognitive orientation toward spirituality was presumed to moderate the relationship between spiritual issues in supervision and spiritual competence. One hundred twenty-seven graduate level clinical and counseling psychology students were recruited for the current investigation. Partial support was found for these hypotheses. Results show that program openness to spiritual content, spiritual issues in supervision, and openness to experience were associated with spiritual competence. Findings from the Multiple Regression analysis indicated that spiritual issues in supervision and openness to experience explained 16% of the variance in spiritual competence. Finally, there was no evidence to support a moderating relationship between factors. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are discussed

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Cataloging source

UMK

Degree

Ph.D.

Dissertation note

(School of Education).

Dissertation year

2013.

Granting institution

University of Missouri-Kansas City,

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

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• dictionaries
• bibliography
• theses