Selecting nonprofessional counselor trainees with the Group Assessment of Interpersonal Traits (GAIT)
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Community Psychology
- Vol. 3 (4) , 371-383
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00880779
Abstract
The GAIT is a procedure for sampling and measuring communication behavior. Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening. Data included pre-GAIT first impression peer ratings and GAIT Empathy. Acceptance, and Openness ratings by peers and by trained audiotape judges. After nine months of training, 26 remaining Ss were judged on a counseling readiness criterion. First impression and peer GAIT ratings were positively intercorrelated, but none predicted counseling readiness. The criterion was correlated with both trained GAIT Empathy (Kendall tau = .40) and staff ratings (.41. both ps less than .01). Suggestions were made for using the GAIT as a counselor selection instrument.Keywords
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