5 A STUDY OF THE COMPONENTS OF COUNSELING COMPETENCIES FOR GUIDANCE TEACHERS IN VUCA WORLD

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Apichat Mookdamuang

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The aims of this research were 1) to study the components of counseling competencies for guidance teachers in the VUCA world and 2) to examine the consistency between the model of the components of counseling competencies for guidance teachers in the VUCA world developed by the researcher with empirical data. The research informants consisted of a group of 10 interview respondents to study the characteristics of counseling competencies for guidance counselors in the VUCA world and guidance teachers in secondary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, academic year 2021, totaling 266 persons in the lower northeastern provinces obtained through multi-stage random sampling, used in confirmatory factor analysis. The research instruments were an interview questionnaire regarding counseling competencies for guidance teachers and a questionnaire for counseling competencies for guidance teachers, with a reliability value of 0.86. The research findings were as follows: 1) counseling competencies for guidance counselors in the VUCA world consisted of 4 components: knowledge in counseling, skills in counseling, attitude towards counseling, and characteristics of being a counselor, and 2) as for the measurement model, counseling competency components were consistent with empirical data (=0.19, df=1, p=.66, GFI=1.00, AGFI=1.00, CFI=1.00, RMSEA=0.00, SRMR=0.00). The measurement model had the following component weight values: qualifications of being a consultant had the highest component weight value of 0.81, followed by attitude towards counseling (0.79), counseling skills (0.78), and knowledge in counseling (0.34), respectively.

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