title: Multicultural counseling self-efficacy scale-racial diversity form: factor structure and test of a social cognitive model.
abstract: This study was conducted to gather evidence on the factor structure and concurrent criterion validity of the multicultural counseling self-efficacy scale-racial diversity form (MCSE-RD; Sheu & Lent, 2007). The MCSE-RD was designed to assess therapists' perceived capabilities in performing culturally relevant in-session behaviors in cross-racial counseling. Participants were 209 students in counseling-related graduate programs in the USA. Confirmatory factor analyses identified a bifactor structure in which responses to MCSE-RD items could be explained by one generic and three multicultural-specific counseling self-efficacy factors. Support was also found for a social cognitive model in which self-efficacy and interests in multicultural counseling mediated the effects of prior cross-racial client contacts and perceptions of multicultural training environments on intent to perform multicultural counseling in the future. Additionally, outcome expectations were predictive of multicultural counseling interests and choice goals. Implications for multicultural training and directions for future research are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA. hsheu@albany.edu
authors.forename: Hung-Bin
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Sheu
authors.forename: Marybeth
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rigali-Oiler
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Lent
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003071:Cognition; D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005008:Ethnopsychology / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D044469:Racial Groups; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012919:Social Behavior