Abstract
Multicultural counseling is an important aspect in counseling. The introduction of the multicultural counseling competencies was a major step to improve counseling services among school counselors. However, there is a lack of valid and reliable instrument to measure multicultural counseling competencies in Malaysian context. This initial study focuses on the development of a local instrument to assess multicultural counseling competencies among Malaysian school counselors. This instrument consists of 42 items and it was administered to 212 secondary school counselors in Negeri Sembilan and Wilayah Persekutuan, Kuala Lumpur. Principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted in which items within initial dimensions of multicultural counseling competencies were reshuffled and checked for their psychometric properties. After series of principal component analysis (PCA) and analysis from the experts, three dimensions of multicultural counseling competencies with 28 items were formed. This paper also discusses the findings and its implication to the instrument development and the validation process.
Highlights
The guidance and counseling services became an integral part of the Malaysian education system in the year of 1960 (Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, 1993)
There is a lack of valid and reliable instrument to measure multicultural counseling competencies in Malaysian context. This initial study focuses on the development of a local instrument to assess multicultural counseling competencies among Malaysian school counselors
The purpose of this study is to develop and to validate the multicultural counseling competencies scale for Malaysian school counselors
Summary
The guidance and counseling services became an integral part of the Malaysian education system in the year of 1960 (Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, 1993). A lot of skills training had been introduced to provide more professional counselors to support the vision and mission of counseling ever since (Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia, 2010). This service has been through enhancement process in phases and it started out with the post of school counselors in secondary schools in 1996. There are other indigenous groups in Sabah and Sarawak at around 11% of the population It gives the whole picture of various kinds of students that leads to multicultural amongst secondary school students which supposed to be faced by school counselors
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