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245 _a Creating a brief form of the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory in the Chinese cultural context using multilevel factor analyses.
_b(Journal Article)
260 _aWashington
_b:American Psychological Association
_c,March 2023
300 _a189-202 p.
490 _aAmerican Psychological Association , Volume 70, Number 2
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520 _aAbstract- The aim of this study was to examine the multilevel factor structure of the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory (SWAI; Efstation et al., 1990) and shorten it for routine clinical use in the Chinese cultural context. Participants were 203 (Sample 1) and 97 (Sample 2) beginning counseling trainees from a master’s level training program in China. They were given the SWAI after every supervision session, and a subset of Sample 1 trainees also completed measures of their counseling self-efficacy before every client session. With Sample 1, multilevel exploratory factory analysis (M-EFA) showed that for the original 19-item version of SWAI, two factors emerged on the within-trainee level (Rapport and Client Focus) as proposed in Efstation et al. (1990), whereas only one General Alliance factor was identifiable on the between-trainee level. After removing poorly or double-loaded items, a six-item brief version of SWAI (SWAI-Brief) was obtained. Using Sample 2, multilevel confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel bifactor models supported the factor structure found in M-EFA with Sample 1. Empirical evidence also supported the reliability of the SWAI-Brief, as well as its criterion-related concurrent and predictive validity given its significant associations with trainee’s counseling self-efficacy at the same week and in the subsequent week. Results suggested that the six-item SWAI-Brief could be a reliable and valid measure for assessing supervisory working alliance in the Chinese cultural context and may be used to continuously track clinical supervision processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
650 _asupervisory working alliance
650 _amultilevel factor structure
650 _alongitudinal data
650 _aChinese beginning counseling trainees
856 _u https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000654
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