What "Does Having Close Friends from Abroad" Mean for the Intercultural Competencies: A New View on the Antecedents of Cultural Intelligence
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/11/569" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/11/569</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci13110569" target="_blank" >10.3390/socsci13110569</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What "Does Having Close Friends from Abroad" Mean for the Intercultural Competencies: A New View on the Antecedents of Cultural Intelligence
Original language description
The study analyzes the impact of intercultural friendship on cultural intelligence (CQ), which is defined as an individual’s ability to operate effectively in a new intercultural environment. Two hypotheses were tested using an online questionnaire completed in the autumn of 2022 by 358 university students from a private university in Prague, Czech Republic. The participants represented 26 countries, with the majority being Czech nationals. The hypotheses were as follows: (1) overall cultural intelligence, and (2) all its components (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational, and behavioral) would be higher or lower depending on whether individuals had close social ties, operationalized by the binary variable “intercultural friendship”. The first hypothesis was confirmed. However, the second hypothesis was only supported for the motivational and cognitive facets of CQ. Our results indicate that CQ is fundamentally a relational construct, developing primarily through contact with members of other cultures. Contextual factors, such as language skills, travel to foreign countries, residence abroad, and the frequency of intercultural contacts, create situational prerequisites for establishing closer intercultural relationships. However, they do not contribute directly to the development of intercultural skills but rather do so indirectly through these relationships.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30220 - Andrology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Social Sciences
ISSN
2076-0760
e-ISSN
2076-0760
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
001366038200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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