Knowing the level of multicultural self-efficacy would be helpful for undergraduate students pursuing degree in guidance and counseling and guidance and counseling study program as well. The objective of this study was to describe their multicultural self-efficacy in relation to learning context in college. 201 undergraduate students (150 females and 50 males) majoring in guidance and counseling of 7 public universities in Indonesia participated in the survey. A 42 item-questionnaire named Multicultural Self-Efficacy Scale for Student (MESS) was administered via Google Form. Analysis was done as appropriate on the analysis of variance level according to demographic data. Findings indicated that students have moderate to high multicultural self-efficacy. Female students had slightly higher scores than their male peers. In addition, students of western part of Indonesia has slightly higher multicultural self-efficacy compared to their peers of middle and eastern part.

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Mothers as one of parents has important influence on children schooling. Their self-efficacy is considered to be a predictor to such influence. The objectives of this study are to examine differences of mothers' self-efficacy that exist based on their educational level and the effect of mothers' selfefficacy on adolescents' academic achievement. An ex post facto design was chosen to achieve the objectives. 104 eleventh graders and their mothers participated as respondents. In addition to adolescents' learning score records, a 24 valid and reliable item questionnaire was administrated to mothers asking them to rate their self-efficacy on influencing their adolescents' academic achievement. An ANOVA test and simple linear regression were utilized to analyze the collected data. The study concluded that self-efficacy has positive relationship with education level and mother's self-efficacy has positive effect on adolescents' academic achievement.

Assessing students’ multicultural self-efficacy was a challenging duty for high school counselors, particularly in conjunction with the understanding function of school counseling. The main objective of this development research was to design and validate a scale for measuring the multicultural self-efficacy of high school students. The 851 public high school students from seven regions of Indonesia participated as respondents. After reviewing pertaining literature, the study set 40 preliminary items about cultural insight, communication, cultural value, cultural awareness, and flexibility. A school counselor educator and a high school counselor experienced in the field examined its construct validity and suggested improving item clarity. The revised scale had sequential testing to determine its practicality, validity, and reliability values, namely the practicality test, the pilot test, and the main test. The results showed that 36 of 40 items met the validity and reliability criteria. In addition, most respondents were in significant agreement about the scale practicality. This evidence indicated that this assessment instrument was suitable for measuring the multicultural self-efficacy of high school students.

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