Dillon Frank R, Alessi Edward J, Craig Shelley, Eber-Sole Ryan C, Kumar Snehal M, Spadola Christine
Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York.
School of Social Work, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey.
Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers. 2015 Mar;2(1):86-95. doi: 10.1037/sgd0000087.
The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Counseling Self-Efficacy Inventory - Short Form (LGB-CSI-SF) was developed to facilitate LGB-affirmative counseling training, as well as process and outcome research, by offering a brief psychometrically supported version of the original LGB-CSI measure to researchers and clinicians. Five hundred seventy-five participants (435 licensed mental health professionals and 140 graduate students/trainees) constituted the sample. Confirmatory factor analyses of the 32 items from the original LGB-CSI yielded a new 15-item version of the measure composed of 5 factors (consisting of 3 items each) that assess counselor self-efficacy to perform lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) affirmative counseling behaviors (Application of Knowledge, Advocacy Skills, Self-Awareness, Relationship, and Assessment). The LGB-CSI-SF evidenced high internal consistency and adequate test-retest stability. Convergent validity was supported by correlations between LGB-CSI-SF total scores and Application of Knowledge, Advocacy Skills, Relationship, and Assessment subscales and instruction in LGB issues, as well as personal/professional relations with LGB individuals. More affirmative attitudes toward LGB persons positively related with total scores and Advocacy Skills, Self-Awareness, and Relationship subscales. Discriminant validity was evidenced by an absence of relations between LGB-CSI-SF subscales and a measure of impression management. We found no associations between Advocacy Skills, Assessment, and Relationship subscales and a measure of Self-Deception. Recommendations for implementing the LGB-CSI-SF in future LGB-affirmative counseling self-efficacy based research and training interventions are discussed.
女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋肯定性咨询自我效能感量表简版（LGB-CSI-SF）的开发，旨在通过为研究人员和临床医生提供一个经过心理测量学支持的原始LGB-CSI量表的简短版本，来促进女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋肯定性咨询培训以及过程和结果研究。575名参与者（435名持牌心理健康专业人员和140名研究生/受训人员）构成了样本。对原始LGB-CSI的32个项目进行的验证性因素分析产生了一个新的15个项目的量表版本，由5个因素（每个因素由3个项目组成）组成，这些因素评估咨询师进行女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）肯定性咨询行为的自我效能感（知识应用、倡导技能、自我意识、关系和评估）。LGB-CSI-SF表现出高内部一致性和足够的重测稳定性。LGB-CSI-SF总分与知识应用、倡导技能、关系和评估子量表以及LGB问题的指导以及与LGB个体的个人/职业关系之间的相关性支持了收敛效度。对LGB人群更肯定的态度与总分以及倡导技能、自我意识和关系子量表呈正相关。LGB-CSI-SF子量表与印象管理测量之间不存在关系，证明了区分效度。我们发现倡导技能、评估和关系子量表与自我欺骗测量之间没有关联。讨论了在未来基于LGB肯定性咨询自我效能感的研究和培训干预中实施LGB-CSI-SF的建议。
