Assessment of professional self‐efficacy in psychological interventions and psychotherapy sessions: Development of the Therapist Self‐Efficacy Scale (T‐SES) and its application for eTherapy

Abstract

Objective This study aimed to develop the Therapist Self‐Efficacy Scale (T‐SES), and test its validity in a sample of Italian mental health therapists, to assess their professional self‐efficacy concerning their practice of eTherapy in a synchronous video‐based setting. Methods A sample of 322 Italian mental health professionals (37.6% psychologists, 62.4% psychotherapists; Mage = 38.48, SD = 8.509) completed an online survey. Results The T‐SES showed a clear, one‐factor structure with good psychometric properties. Significant associations were found with insight orientation, general self‐efficacy, self‐esteem, and personality traits of openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. The results showed no differences between psychologists and psychotherapists, or differences based on years of experience. Conclusion The T‐SES is an agile and versatile self‐report measure for mental health professionals to assess their self‐efficacy concerning their therapeutic activity, which can provide information for tailoring training for eTherapy.

The Association between Alexithymia and Social Media Addiction: Exploring the Role of Dysmorphic Symptoms, Symptoms Interference, and Self-Esteem, Controlling for Age and Gender

“…Although the use of the internet offers multiple opportunities and benefits, such as maintaining social relationships [ 4 ], remote working [ 86 ], and online therapy [ 87 ], to name a few, for some individuals this means also exposes them to the risk of developing technological addictions [ 88 ]. This study focused on social media addiction, highlighting the contribution of alexithymia, body image concern, and self-esteem through a moderated mediation model.…”

Insight orientation scale: A promising tool for organizational outcomes–A psychometric analysis using item response theory

“…Insight theory represents an empirically grounded framework for the understanding of the individual's functioning, with increasing applications in several psychological domains (e.g., Gori et al, 2021bGori et al, , 2022. In this view, the use of short scales, agile in administration and scoring, jargon free, and psychometrically solid appears to be of great utility for assessing and monitoring insight orientation in several sectors and contexts.…”

“…Parallelly, the scale focuses specifically on insight orientation with a solid and comprehensive theoretical basis, structuring itself with items that explore and investigate 7 central elements of the construct (Castonguay and Hill, 2007;Hill et al, 2007): surprise, restructuring, level of consciousness, problem solving, complexity, self-reflectiveness, and awareness (Gori et al, 2015). In light of these properties, the IOS appears to be a particularly functional scale and has been used to facilitate the understanding of processes not only in the clinical context (Gori et al, 2022), but also in different applied contexts as the workplace (Di Fabio and Gori, 2016a;Gori and Topino, 2020).…”

Satisfaction with life in workers: A chained mediation model investigating the roles of resilience, career adaptability, self-efficacy, and years of education

“…promoting self-awareness and self-perception as effective (Hartung and Cadaret, 2017;Ginevra et al, 2018;Marcionetti and Rossier, 2021). In turn, higher levels of career adaptability and self-efficacy can be associated with a positive sense of self, even in carrying out new challenges in professional activities (Gori et al, 2022), favoring job success (Hartung and Cadaret, 2017;Carter et al, 2018) and satisfaction with life (Çelik and Kahraman, 2018;Ng et al, 2020). Therefore, the between resilience and satisfaction with life occurred both directly and indirectly through the chained mediation of career adaptability and self-efficacy (H 5 ).…”