TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in Group Counseling Engagement and Conflict and Growth in Emotional Cultivation for Children and Adolescents
AU - Wang, Li fei
AU - Kivlighan, Dennis M.
AU - Wei, Meifen
AU - Kivlighan, D. Martin
AU - Hung, Yu Ling
AU - Koay, Evelyn Yan Yi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant MOST 111-2410-H-003-102-MY3) and National Taiwan Normal University within the framework of the Benchmark Project in the field of Humanities and Social Science (Education Discipline) by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, Republic of China, to Li-fei Wang. The Research Ethical Committee’s approval does not allow for sharing the data. Analytic code is available from the author upon request. This study was not preregistered
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 American Psychological Association
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Group climate is an important factor in group counseling and psychotherapy process and outcome research. The current investigation examined group climate changes (from early to late sessions) at the within-group (i.e., group members) and between-group (i.e., group-as-a-whole) levels in predicting changes in group members’ emotional cultivation in group counseling. A total of 236 Taiwanese children and adolescents across 41 groups participated in this study. Members’ ratings of group climate (i.e., engagement and conflict) were partitioned into within-group and between-group components, and polynomial regression with response surface analysis was used to examine the association between changes in group engagement and conflict (at the member and group-level) from early to late group sessions on changes in emotional cultivation. Results supported the theoretical hypothesis that when a group-as-a-whole reported increasing engagement from early to late group sessions, relative to other groups (i.e., between-group effect), members of that group experienced greater growth in emotional cultivation.
AB - Group climate is an important factor in group counseling and psychotherapy process and outcome research. The current investigation examined group climate changes (from early to late sessions) at the within-group (i.e., group members) and between-group (i.e., group-as-a-whole) levels in predicting changes in group members’ emotional cultivation in group counseling. A total of 236 Taiwanese children and adolescents across 41 groups participated in this study. Members’ ratings of group climate (i.e., engagement and conflict) were partitioned into within-group and between-group components, and polynomial regression with response surface analysis was used to examine the association between changes in group engagement and conflict (at the member and group-level) from early to late group sessions on changes in emotional cultivation. Results supported the theoretical hypothesis that when a group-as-a-whole reported increasing engagement from early to late group sessions, relative to other groups (i.e., between-group effect), members of that group experienced greater growth in emotional cultivation.
KW - children and adolescents
KW - emotional cultivation or regulation
KW - group climate
KW - group counseling and psychotherapy
KW - response surface analysis
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U2 - 10.1037/cou0000648
DO - 10.1037/cou0000648
M3 - Article
C2 - 36455023
AN - SCOPUS:85149053221
SN - 0022-0167
VL - 70
SP - 159
EP - 171
JO - Journal of Counseling Psychology
JF - Journal of Counseling Psychology
IS - 2
ER -
