Influence of Virtue Ethics on Counselling Morale Application among Counselling Interns

The nature of virtue ethics is important in
counselling process. The investigation on the virtue ethics
(benevolence and respectfulness) involves counselling morale
application among trainee counsellors. The purposes of the
research include: (i) to investigate the relationship between the
“benevolence” and cultural awareness of the trainee counsellors,
(ii) to investigate the relationship between the “respectfulness”
and cultural awareness of the trainee counsellors, (iii) to
investigate the relationship between the cultural awareness and
morale application among trainee counsellors, (iv) to investigate
the use of “benevolence” in the morale application among
trainee counsellors, and (v) to investigate the use of
“respectfulness” in the morale application among trainee
counsellors. The instruments used to measure the variables in
the study are the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS), Multicultural
Attitude Scale (MAS), and Vision of Morality Scale (VMS).
Findings have shown that the virtue ethics (benevolence and
respectfulness) had influences on the counselling morale
application. In summary, the virtue ethics is essential for
counsellor’s decision making in the counselling process.