Table 3.
Demographic, Professional, and Practice Characteristics as Predictors of Attitudes
| Benefit Over Clinical Judgment | Psychometric Quality | Practicality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univariate Analysis | Multivariate Analysis | Univariate Analysis | Multivariate Analysis | Univariate Analysis | Multivariate Analysis | ||||
| Predictor variable | B | R2 | B | B | R2 | B | B | R2 | B |
| Demographic Characteristics | |||||||||
| Age (in units of 10) | .01 | .00 | −.01 | −.00 | .00 | −.00 | .04 | .00 | .01 |
| Gender (female = 1) | −.09 | .00 | −.08 | −.05 | .00 | −.00 | −.12* | .01 | −.06 |
| Ethnicity (minority = 1) | −.07 | .00 | −.06 | −.05 | .00 | −.08 | −.17* | .01 | −.14 |
| Professional Characteristics | |||||||||
| Highest Degree (doctoral = 1) | .17* | .02 | .15 | .25* | .06 | .12 | .31* | .08 | .22* |
| Professional Discipline | .05 | .09 | .14 | ||||||
| Psychologist (1) vs Psychiatrist (0) | .36* | .47* | .19* | .24* | .42* | .45* | |||
| Psychologist (1) vs MFT (0) | .35* | .27* | .39* | .31* | .44* | .30* | |||
| Psychologist (1) vs Social Worker (0) | .32* | .26* | .35* | .29* | .53* | .37* | |||
| Psychologist (1) vs Counselor (0) | .26* | .16 | .30* | .22* | .43* | .25* | |||
| Psychiatrist (1) vs MFT (0) | −.02 | −.21 | .20* | .08 | .02 | −.15 | |||
| Psychiatrist (1) vs Social Worker (0) | −.04 | −.21 | .16* | .05 | .10 | −.081 | |||
| Psychiatrist (1) vs Counselor (0) | −.10 | −.31* | .11 | .02 | .01 | .20 | |||
| MFT (1) vs Social Worker (0) | −.03 | −.01 | −.04 | −.03 | .09 | . | 07 | ||
| MFT (1) vs Counselor (0) | −.09 | −.11 | −.09 | −.10 | −.01 | −.05 | |||
| Counselor (1) vs Social Worker (0) | .06 | .10 | .05 | .07 | .10 | .12 | |||
| Practice Characteristics | |||||||||
| Private practice (1) vs other settings (0) | −.12 | .01 | −.17* | −.09 | .01 | −.13* | .01 | .0 | −.01 |
| Low income caseload (> 25% = 1) | .08 | .00 | .10 | −.00 | .00 | .00 | −.07 | .00 | .04 |
| Ethnic minority caseload (> 25% = 1) | .03 | .00 | −.01 | .04 | .00 | .03 | −.03 | .00 | .01 |
p < .001