Personality characteristics of counselors rated as effective or ineffective

Effectiveness Related to Personality and Demographic Characteristics of Secondary School Counselors

“…Correlations between performance and sex (T= -.05) and between age (r= -.15) and years of experience in current position (r=.01) were low (see Table 1). The results support previous findings by Wiggins and Weslander (1979) and Wiggins and Moody (1983) that such factors seem to be unrelated to the ratings of supervisors as measured by the SWPB. c -.53*** An intercorrelation matrix for the variables included in the study revealed a high positive correlation among the Budner Scale, the SEI, job satisfaction scores, and the Social, Investigative, and Artistic scores on the VPI.…”

“…The findings indicated that highly effective counselors perform differently on the job than do their ineffective counterparts. Wiggins and Moody (1983) found almost identical results to those in the first study cited (Wiggins & Weslander, 1979) for counselors employed in various types of community agencies. They found that effectiveness ratings of counselors, independently made by both clients and supervisors, were highly correlated with high Social and Artistic scores on the VPI.…”

“…The VPI seems to have had at least moderate reliability and validity in studies conducted with various occupational groups over the last decade. It has been used to predict future employment areas of both men and women with moderate efficiency (Wiggins & Weslander, 1979). Moderate construct-and criterion-related validity studies were reported in the VPI manual (Holland, 1977).…”

“…A brief review of several previous studies may be helpful in understanding this article. Wiggins and Weslander (1979) compared the effectiveness of 320 school counselors as rated by three separate supervisors with tested personality scores on the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) (Holland, 1977) and with reported demographic characteristics such as age and employment level. Significant correlations were found between tested personality characteristics and supervisor-rated effectiveness of these school counselors.…”

Identifying Effective Counselors Through Client‐Supervisor Ratings and Personality‐Environmental Variables

“…The VPI has been used to successfully predict future employment areas of both males and females with moderate efficiency (Wiggins & Weslander, 1979), and has moderate construct and criterion-related validity as reported in the manual for the VPI (Holland, 1977, pp. 19-22).…”