Development and validation of a multicultural counseling competency scale for Malaysian professional counselors |
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| Authors: | Rafidah Aga Mohd Jaladin Noh Amit Nabeel Abedal Aziz |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;2. Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia |
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| Abstract: | This study describes the development and validation of a 32-item instrument to assess the multicultural counseling competencies of 508 Malaysian professional counselors. Exploratory factor analysis identified five underlying factors of multicultural counseling competency (MCC), and this five-factor model of MCC, confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis, has more than the three dimensions proposed in the literature. These findings provide strong evidence for construct validity and encourage the use of this instrument among counselors. |
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| Keywords: | competencia en consejería multicultural consejería en Malasia consejeros profesionales desarrollo de escala Malaysian counseling multicultural counseling competency professional counselors scale development |
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