• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.332-344
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to identify the components of how clients perceive the counselors' authenticity in actual counseling, and to examine the therapeutic changes and processes related to the counselors' authenticity. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 clients majoring in counseling at graduate school, and as a result of analyzing using the Grounded theory approach, 57 concepts, 40 sub-categories, and 14 categories were derived. The major results of this study are as follows: first, the components of counselor authenticity perceived by clients were identified as 'honesty', 'sincere attitude', and 'heartfelt caring'. Second, counselors' authenticity was found to bring about deeper and generalized therapeutic changes when a deep level of acceptance and empathy for the client was accompanied. Finally, therapeutic changes in counselors' authenticity were found to be 'increasing self-understanding and acceptance', 'generalization of authenticity modeling', and 'increasing initiative in coping with problems'. This study contributed to the increase of the practical knowledge of the counselors' authenticity by identifying the therapeutic value of authenticity and factors, and provided the implications to education and training for novice counselors.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.245-253
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• 2019

This study was performed to emotional labors of the relationship between the emotional dis-harmory and life satisfaction to find if authenticity take a role as a mediator variable. For this study targeting the women counselors us 197 people general public institution based in Seoul, to emotional dissonance scale partially modified by Hyuck-gi Kwon and Bong-gyu Park(2006); authenticity scale by Wood at all (2008), and life satisfaction measurement(Satisfaction With Life Scale; SWLS) developed by Diener at all(1985), was subjected to multiple regression analysis was performed to verify sobel for the statistical significance of the mediating effect. As a result was showed that authenticity is fully mediated of emotional dis-harmory between life satisfaction. The results implies that improving life satisfaction on a women customer counselor with emotional dis-harmony may help reduce accepting external influence, self-alienation and increase authentic living. Finally, implication and limitation of study are discussed.