This study was conducted for two major purposes. First, it is to seek out which area supervisees with a higher sense of shame are not willing to open particularly, by extending Yourman(2000)’s research that explored the relationship between supervi...
This study was conducted for two major purposes. First, it is to seek out which area supervisees with a higher sense of shame are not willing to open particularly, by extending Yourman(2000)’s research that explored the relationship between supervisee’s sense of shame and self-disclosure in the supervision of counseling. Second, it is to explore variables that actually influence supervision and their relationship by establishing and verifying an assumptive model by incorporating the relationship of the features of supervisee, supervision procedures, and performance variables shown in diverse supervision models. To this aim, 151 counselors who proceeded to counseling in Korea and were supervised, became the subject of this study, and the assumptive model to be verified in this study was established on the basis of a conceptual model of Bernard and Goodyear(2004). For verifying the model, a structural equation modeling which is suitable for a statistical assessment on a theory model and is ideal for using parameters, was used. In addition, in order to verify whether the assumptive model of this study is appropriate, a competitive model 1 was established on the basis of research results of Yourman(2000) and Son(2004), and a competitive model 2 was also established for verifying the pattern of mediation model.
The detailed research results are as follows.
First, as supervisees showed a higher sense of shame, they were less likely to open their personal areas in relation to the execution of counseling among self-disclosure areas(p<.01). The personal area in relation to the execution of counseling includes the proceeding of counseling, information about intervention, emotion and personal issues of counselors-clients. Moreover, the sense of shame showed a significant negative correlation with supervisor and supervision (p<.05).
Second, as a result of testing the model, a research model that is built on the assumption of the research of three models established for this study, was supported. In the research model, working alliance and supervisee’s self-disclosure mediates the sense of shame and satisfaction, and working alliance also influences self-disclosure. As a result of reviewing the estimated value of parameter of the model based on the results, all of each route concerning working alliance were significant, whereas the routes of the sense of shame and self-disclosure, and self-disclosure and satisfaction were not significant. Also, it was proven that working alliance mediates the sense of shame with satisfaction, and the sense of shame with self-disclosure. However, when the effect of working alliance was totally controlled as in a competitive model 1, the route of the sense of shame and self-disclosure, self-disclosure and satisfaction with supervision was found significant. Theses results are supporting the researches precedent(Yourman, 2000; Son, 2004). However, when adding working alliance variables to this route, the relationship between the sense of shame and self-disclosure, self-disclosure and satisfaction with supervision was not significant any more. Rather, working alliance shows a stronger influenced on satisfaction than self-disclosure itself did on satisfaction. Therefore, it implies that the existing research results might have shown a self-disclosure effect which was overestimated by the effect of other potential variables which were not added to the self-disclosure effect except for self-disclosure.
Based on the research results, the reality of supervision and the suggestion in the study of supervision were discussed, and the meaning, limitations, and proposals of this study were articulated.