Multicultural experiences can be conceptually connected to counsellor trainees’ perception of the multicultural exposure and interaction that they experienced during the multicultural counselling course. The degree of counsellor trainees multicultural experience may reflect the status and focus of the multicultural counselling course. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Malay version of the MCREI. There are 205 counsellor trainees from local universities who completed the questionnaire. Based on factor analysis, the four-factor structure, the same as the original version was confirmed with 12 items were retained. For reliability, internal consistency and construct reliability were evaluated and confirmed. The finding showed that the internal consistency was ? = .842 and construct reliability of .837. The convergent validity value obtained from the confirmatory factor analysis was .574. In addition, an external validity value is also provided. Overall, the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Malay version of the MCREI were all confirmed in this study. The high reliability and proven validity imply that MCREI can successfully be used by counsellor trainees across gender and ethnicity.
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To Cite this Article: Harun, M. M., Jaafar, W. M. W., Ismail, A., & Noah, S. M. (2021). Reliability and Validity of Translated Multicultural Course Racial Experiences Inventory (MCREI) on the sample of Malaysian Counsellor Trainees. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(4), 103-119.
