Scale Characteristics of Intercultural Competence Measures and the Effects of Intercultural Competence on Prejudice.

Autor:	Genkova P; Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany., Schaefer CD; Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany., Schreiber H; Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany., Rašticová M; Department of Law and Social Sciences, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czechia., Poor J; Social Sciences Management and HR, Research Center, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllö, Hungary., Veresné KV; Social Sciences Management and HR, Research Center, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllö, Hungary., Suhajda C; Social Sciences Management and HR, Research Center, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllö, Hungary., Viszetenvelt A; Social Sciences Management and HR, Research Center, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllö, Hungary., Bjekic J; Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2021 Jul 19; Vol. 12, pp. 686597. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 19 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686597
Abstrakt:	Due to proceeding globalization processes, involving a rise in mobility and international interdependencies, the frequency and relevance of intercultural contact situations increases. Consequently, the ability to deal effectively with intercultural situations is gaining in importance. However, the majority of studies on measures of intercultural competence focuses on Western Europe and the United States or cultures of the Far East. For the present study, previously understudied Eastern European (former communist) cultures were included, by sampling in Hungary, Serbia, and the Czech Republic, in addition to (the Central or Western European country) Germany. Thus, this study enabled comparisons of scale characteristics of the cultural intelligence scale (CQS), the multicultural personality questionnaire (MPQ), as well as the blatant and subtle prejudice scales, across samples from different cultures. It was also examined how the CQS and MPQ dimensions are associated with prejudice. To analyse scale characteristics, the factor structures and measurement invariances of the used instruments were analyzed. There were violations of configural measurement invariance observed for all of these scales, indicating that the comparability across samples is limited. Therefore, each of the samples was analyzed separately when examining how the CQS and MPQ dimensions are related to prejudice. It was revealed that, in particular, the motivational aspect of the CQS was statistically predicting lower prejudice. Less consistently, the MPQ dimensions of open-mindedness and flexibility were statistically predicting lower prejudice in some of the analyses. However, the violations of measurement invariance indicate differences in the constructs' meanings across the samples from different cultures. It is consequently argued that cross-cultural equivalence should not be taken for granted when comparing Eastern and Western European cultures. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Genkova, Schaefer, Schreiber, Rašticová, Poor, Veresné, Suhajda, Viszetenvelt and Bjekic.)
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