| Abstract: | Supervisor training was used as a treatment for decreasing the gap between ecological veracity (self versus objective reality) and personal veracity (self versus perceived reality) of CETA supervisees on personal attribute and work-proficiency dimensions. Research suggests that decreasing this gap increases employability. Interventions aimed at decreasing this gap have focused on changing the behavior of the client or supervisee to conform more to the expectations of the system or supervisor. The present research assumed that supervisors often have faulty perceptions of the behaviors of their supervisees, especially those in CETA jobs. Through supervisor training, we attempted to decrease the gap by changing supervisor perceptions to match those of their supervisees. Training did not produce a significant difference between trained and untrained supervisor-supervisee groups on objective and perceived reality estimates. As with earlier research in which no training was employed, perceived-reality estimates were more highly correlated with self-ratings than objective-reality estimates and the gap between ecological and personal veracity remained wide. |
