Psychological Counselor Candidates’ Attitudes towards Gender Roles: The Predictive Role of Multicultural Personality Trait

This study aims to investigate multicultural personality traits and attitudes towards genderroles of psychological counselor candidates (PCC). A total of 234 (156 female, 67%) PCCs completedmeasures of Gender Roles Attitude Scale, Multicultural Personality Scale and the Personal Information.Correlation analysis, variance analysis, independent samples t-test, regression analysis and mediationanalysis were performed for data analyzing. This study showed that while attitudes towards genderroles of PCCs have a significantdifference in terms of gender, mother working status and place wheremost of life is passed, no significant difference was observed according to the grade level. Furthermore,multicultural personality traits were related to attitudes toward the gender roles. In addition, gender,cultural empathy, flexibility and social initiative multicultural personality traits explained about 31% ofthe variance in the attitudes towards gender roles of PCCs. Lastly, cultural empathy and flexibility had apartially mediating effect on the predictive role of gender.