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This article explores how similarities in expected and perceived in-session behaviour between clients and career counsellors are related to evaluation of sessions. Interpersonal behaviour was defined by the Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour, SASB (Benjamin, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(6), 1203–1212, 1996a; Journal of Personality Assessment, 66(2), 248–266, 1996b; Interpersonal diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders. New York, NY, Guilford Press). Fifteen dyads of clients and career counsellors in a Swedish upper secondary school participated. The hypotheses were that if clients and career counsellors had more similar expectations regarding their behaviour and more similar perceptions of in-session behaviour this would lead to more positive evaluations of the session. Only weak support was found for an association between positive evaluation of sessions and interpersonal similarities in expectations and experiences of behaviour.
Résumé. Comportement interpersonnel dans l’entretien vocationnel.
Cet article explore la manière dont les similitudes dans le comportement attendu et perçu à l’intérieur de sessions entre des clients et des conseillers d’orientation sont liées à l’évaluation de ces sessions. Le comportement interpersonnel a été défini par la Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour, SASB(Analyse Structurale du Comportement Social, ASCS) (Benjamin, 1996). Quinze dyades de clients et de conseillers d’orientation dans une école secondaire suédoise de deuxième cycle ont participé à cette étude. Les hypothèses étaient que si les clients et les conseillers d’orientation avaient des attentes concernant leur comportement et des perceptions du comportement intra-session plus proches, ceci mènerait à des évaluations plus positives de la session. On n’a trouvé qu’un faible appui à l’association entre l’évaluation positive des sessions et les similitudes interpersonnelles dans les attentes et les perceptions comportementales.
Zusammenfassung. Interpersonelles Verhalten in der Beruflichen Beratung.
Dieser Artikel untersucht die Einflüsse zwischen dem erwarteten und dem wahrgenommenen Verhalten von Klienten und Beratern während Beratungssitzungen und der Bewertung dieser Sitzungen. Das interpersonelle Verhalten wurde auf der Grundlage der “Strukturanalyse für soziales Verhalten (Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour, SASB, Benjamin, 1996) ausgewertet. Fünfzehn Klienten-Berater-Paare aus einer höheren Sekundar-Schule in Schweden nahmen an der Untersuchung teil. Ausgangshypothese war, dass die Bewertung der Beratungssitzung um so positiver ausfallen würde, je ähnlicher sich die Verhaltenserwartungen von Klienten und Beratern und die gegenseitigen Verhaltenswahrnehmungen sind. Für diesen vermuteten Zusammenhang zwischen positiver Bewertung einer Sitzung und interpersonellen Verhaltenserwartungen und –beobachtungen wurde jedoch nur ein sehr schwacher Nachweis gefunden.
Resumen. Comportamiento Interpersonal en la Orientación (personalizada) para la Carrera.
Este artículo explora cómo las semejanzas en el comportamiento esperado y percibido en las sesiones de orientación entre los clientes y los orientadores están relacionadas con la evaluación de dichas sesiones. El comportamiento interpersonal fue definido en el Análisis Estructural del Comportamiento Social (Benjamín, 1996). Participaron quince díadas de clientes y orientadores en una escuela secundaria superior sueca. La hipótesis de partida era que si los clientes y orientadores tenían expectativas semejantes con respecto a su comportamiento y percepciones más parecidas sobre el comportamiento en la sesión, esto llevaría a evaluaciones más positivas de la sesión. Los resultados proporcionaron sólo un débil apoyo a la relación entre la evaluación positiva de las sesiones y las semejanzas interpersonales en expectativas y experiencias de comportamiento.
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Schedin, G. Similarity of Interpersonal Behaviour in Career Counselling. Int J Educ Vocat Guidance 5, 37–55 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-005-2125-4
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