The Relationship Between General Counseling Self-Efficacy and Self-Perceived Multicultural Counseling Competence in Supervisees

Abstract

This study examined the extent to which general counseling self-efficacy beliefs were predictive of self-reported multicultural counseling competence in a sample of 94 trainees. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that, after accounting for the variance contributed by previous multicultural training and multicultural supervision, trainees' general counseling self-efficacy beliefs were significantly positively related to their self-perceived multicultural counseling competence. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Key Words:

• Counseling self-efficacy
• multicultural counseling competence
• counselor supervision
• multicultural supervision
• multicultural training