DEVELOPMENT OF THE MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING INVENTORY - A SELF-REPORTMEASURE OF MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCES

This article presents the Multicultural Counseling Inventory (MCI), a self-report instrument that measures multicultural counseling competen cies. Study 1 comprised 604 psychology students, psychologists, and co unselors in a midwestern state. In Study 2, respondents were a nationa l random sample of 320 university counselors. Instrument analysis incl uded exploratory principal-axis factor analysis with oblique rotation, assessment of factor congruence between the factor structures of the 2 samples, LISREL confirmatory factor analysis to test the relative go odness of fit of 6 competing factor models of the MCI, and tests of in ternal consistency reliabilities. Results indicated that the MCI has 4 factors: Multicultural Counseling Skills, Multicultural Awareness, Mu lticultural Counseling Relationship, and Multicultural Counseling Know ledge. A higher order, more general multicultural counseling factor is also discussed.