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MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE AND RACIAL MICROAGGRESSION AS PREDICTORS OF CAREER COUNSELING SELF-EFFICACY AMONG COUNSELORS OF COLOR

Williams, Kristie Marie

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Counselor Education and Supervision.
The effectiveness of career counseling treatment outcomes is determined in part by the competence of career counselors themselves who must work with an increasingly expanding range of client diversity including but not limited to more clients of color. Career counselors’ self-efficacy in general, and particularly regarding multicultural clientele, is a key component of career counseling effectiveness. This may be especially true for career counselors of color although little research has been conducted to assess variables predictive of self-efficacy among career counselors of color. Due to the potential that their own personal experiences of racial insults may impact treatment competency perceptions, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether self-perceived multicultural competence and self-perceived racial microaggression predicted career counseling self-efficacy among counselors of color. Minority stress theory informed the underpinnings of the present study. One hundred eighteen licensed professional counselors and licensed rehabilitation counselors, self-identified as counselors of color and practicing career counseling, completed the Career Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale, the Racial and Ethnic Microaggression Scale, the Multicultural Counseling Inventory, and a demographic questionnaire. Four hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that stronger career counseling therapeutic process and competency self-efficacy beliefs were significantly predicted by self-perceived increases in multicultural competency skills. However, neither other forms of self-perceived multicultural competencies nor self-perceived microaggression predicted self-efficacy beliefs. Implications for multicultural theory, career counselor practice and education, and future research are discussed.
Robert Schwartz (Advisor)
161 p.

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  • Williams, K. M. (2016). MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE AND RACIAL MICROAGGRESSION AS PREDICTORS OF CAREER COUNSELING SELF-EFFICACY AMONG COUNSELORS OF COLOR [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1478865459916952

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Williams, Kristie. MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE AND RACIAL MICROAGGRESSION AS PREDICTORS OF CAREER COUNSELING SELF-EFFICACY AMONG COUNSELORS OF COLOR . 2016. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1478865459916952.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Williams, Kristie. "MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE AND RACIAL MICROAGGRESSION AS PREDICTORS OF CAREER COUNSELING SELF-EFFICACY AMONG COUNSELORS OF COLOR ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1478865459916952

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)