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SUPERVISOR FACILITATIVE CONDITIONS AND EFFECTIVENESS AS PERCEIVED BY THINKING AND FEELING TYPE SUPERVISEES (JUNGIAN, MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR, EMPATHY, BARRETT-LENNARD RELATIONSHIP INVENTORY, REGARD)
Abstract
The supervision literature suggests that facilitative conditions may be necessary for effective supervision as well as effective therapy. Recent research using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) implies that these conditions may be particularly important for feeling type supervisees. To investigate these hypotheses, a nationwide sample of 1982-1983 graduates of clinical and counseling doctoral psychology programs was surveyed regarding their supervision experiences during training and their MBTI types. Each was asked to rate the supervisors he/she perceived as contributing most and least to his/her therapeutic effectiveness, on a revised 40-item form of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (RI). The RI measures five facilitative conditions: regard, empathy, congruence, unconditionality, and willingness to be known. Of the 300 individuals contacted, 152 returned usable questionnaires. These included 53% men and 47% women, and 75% clinical and 24% counseling doctorates. Half were supervising therapy; 93% were currently doing therapy. The MBTI distribution was 55% introverted, 89% intuitive, 51% thinking, and 59% judging. Supervisors contributing most were markedly more facilitative than supervisors contributing least as measured by all five RI scales, for supervisors and supervisees of all three major theoretical orientations (behavioral, client-centered, and analytic). Of the high facilitative supervisors, supervisees were most likely to select supervisors of similar theoretical orientations as the supervisor contributing most. Both thinking and feeling type respondents rated their supervisor contributing most as significantly more facilitative (Total RI) than the supervisor contributing least. However, facilitative conditions of the supervisors contributing most were significantly higher (more important) for feeling than thinking type supervisees, and, unexpectedly, for intuitive than sensing type supervisees. Similarly, the stronger the supervisee's feeling preference, the higher the facilitation ratings of the supervisor contributing most, and the greater the differences in the rated facilitative conditions between the supervisors selected as contributing most versus those contributing least. Supervisor empathy was particularly important for feeling types, and empathy and congruence for intuitive types.
Subject Area
Psychotherapy
Recommended Citation
SCHACHT, ANITA JEAN, "SUPERVISOR FACILITATIVE CONDITIONS AND EFFECTIVENESS AS PERCEIVED BY THINKING AND FEELING TYPE SUPERVISEES (JUNGIAN, MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR, EMPATHY, BARRETT-LENNARD RELATIONSHIP INVENTORY, REGARD)" (1986). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8620820.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8620820