This study is to identify the spiritual well-being of organizational counselor in Ministry of Education Malaysia. The subjects consisted of 203 counselors who are serving in organization counselors who serve in the State Education Department, District Education Office, Matriculation College, Institute of Teacher Education and also Psychology and Counseling Division, Ministry of Education. This study also is to understand the level of spiritual well being of the organizational counselor in Ministry of Education Malaysia. Likert Scale survey that consist of an instrument Spiritual Well being Scale that was developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) was used in this study. Data gathered and analyzed using SPSS application. Instrument used showed high reliability. Descriptive analysis used to measure mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage. The study showed that the level of spiritual well being of organizational counselor in Ministry of Education Malaysia is moderate with mean score 95.59 and standard deviation 10.45. This study about the spiritual well being of the organizational counselor in Ministry of Education Malaysia will gives high impact in strengthening the level of professionalism for the counselor throughout the country. A few implication and suggestions also were suggested.
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