abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of language anxiety, acculturation and social connectedness with American people to the counseling self-efficacy of international counseling students (ICSs) in the United States. The study used hierarchical multiple regression analysis with a sample of ICSs from counseling, counseling psychology and related programs in the U.S. (N=72). Major findings indicated that ICSs’ language anxiety was inversely associated with their counseling self-efficacy; neither ICSs’ acculturation nor social connectedness with American people had a significant relationship with counseling self-efficacy. Further, there was no significant interaction between language anxiety and social connectedness with American people; language anxiety, acculturation, social connectedness with American people, and the interaction between language anxiety and social connectedness with American people together did not account for a significantly different amount of variance in counseling self-efficacy over and above the variance accounted for by language anxiety alone. Implications, limitations and recommendations for future research are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Counseling 2016
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:39455 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Contributors | Li, Chi (Author), Bernstein, Bianca L (Advisor), Homer, Judith Ann (Committee member), Spanierman, Lisa Beth (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 70 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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