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Assessing Efficacy and Importance of Career Counseling Competencies
Author(s) -
Perrone Kristin M.,
Perrone Philip A.,
Chan Fong,
Thomas Kenneth R.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2000.tb00287.x
Subject(s) - social cognitive theory , career counseling , psychology , cognitive information processing , self efficacy , medical education , applied psychology , career development , rating scale , scale (ratio) , counseling psychology , factorial analysis , social psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The authors examined self‐efficacy and perceived importance of several career counseling competencies among counselors in school settings ( N = 567). The social cognitive career theory was used as a conceptual framework. Participants completed a modified version of the Career Counseling Self‐Efficacy Scale (CCSES) that also included an importance rating. A principal components analysis was used to examine the factorial structure of the modified CCSES and to determine the generalizabilty of the original CCSES findings to practicing school counselors. In addition, counselors' importance ratings were compared to those of a panel of counselor educators and career guidance consultants.