PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS AS PREDICTORS OF COUNSELLING COMPETENCIES OF PROSPECTIVE COUNSELLORS IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN EDO AND DELTA STATES

This study investigated personality characteristics as predictors of counselling competencies of prospective counsellors in public universities in Edo and Delta States of Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to find out if personality characteristics predicts counsellor competencies of prospective counsellor in public Universities in Edo and Delta States.Two research questions were raised and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Survey research design adopting