The Initial Development of the Multicultural Supervision Scale

Abstract

The Multicultural Supervision Scale (MSS) was administered to 304 counselor educators and clinical supervisors across the United States. A three factor model comprising 39 items seemed to define the contours of the construct of multicultural issues in supervision. Three factors were defined as supervisory skills, supervisors’ attitudes and beliefs, as well as stereotypes toward diverse populations. The findings suggested the scores on the MSS were valid and reliable. Overall, the MSS provided an important initial step in developing an assessment in multicultural supervision with reasonable factor structure, internal consistency, and having scientific and applied utility.

Keywords:

• multicultural supervision
• supervisor assessment