A REVISION AND REVALIDATION OF THE COUNSELING EVALUATION INVENTORY
Abstract
This study revised and concurrently revalidated Linden, Stone and Shertzer's (1965) Counseling Evaluation Inventory (CEI) using Barrett-Lennard's (1962) Relationship Inventory (RI). The revision included item content and a new subscale, Counselor Competency (C). The Likert format of the original 21-item instrument was maintained and a new 60-item experimental version of the CEI (R-C) was constructed. The study was conducted in two phases. In Phase I the reliability and validity of the CEI (R-C) were analyzed and a 40-item, more convenient form of the CEI was constructed (CEI-2). Phase II employed a cross-validation sample to investigate whether the results of Phase I were replicable. The subjects for both phases were clients involved in counseling at a Midwestern university. All clients were self-selected; all counselors were graduate students in training. Test-retest reliability analyses indicated that the CEI (R-C) and CEI-2 demonstrated satisfactory reliability over time. Relationship analyses across phases revealed that the subscales tapped strongly related but independent dimensions of client-perceived counseling. Structural analyses in both phases indicated adequate internal consistency estimates for all subscales and improvements in these indices in Phase II. The CEI-2 demonstrated significant concurrent validity with the RI (r = .74). Canonical correlation analyses identified patterns of subscale combinations between the CEI-2 and RI that supported a developmental view of counseling, and suggested that client evaluative criteria changed from initial counseling concerns in Phase I to longer-term counseling concerns in Phase II. Although further efforts at validation are needed, the CEI-2 represents a definite improvement upon the original CEI. In combination with the RI, it offers the researcher/evaluator an assessment of eight essential dimensions of client-perceived counseling.
Degree
Ph.D.
Subject Area
Academic guidance counseling
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