Predictors of Counselor-in-Training Students' General Self-Efficacy
Predictors of Counselor-in-Training Students' General Self-Efficacy
Counselor’s self-efficacy theory serves as having major implications for educators and researchers inthe counseling field. The self-efficacy of counselors-in-training (CsIT) typically increases as they evaluate andintegrate their experiences during their training program. One of the goals of counselor education programs is tounderstand how CsIT improve during their education to be efficient and effective professional counselors afterthey graduate. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine predictive factors of counselors-in-trainings’self-efficacy. Seventy-eight counseling students (12 men and 66 women) participated in the study. Results ofbivariate correlations and multiple regression revealed that mattering, resilience, empathy, and existential wellbeingwere significant predictors of general self-efficacy. Our study sought to examine a conceptual frameworkof self-efficacy with resilience, mattering, empathy, and existential well-being serving as independent variables.The importance of evaluating self-efficacy is evident in the literature and this study adds to the current literatureemphasizing on the positive psychology factors.
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