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As a result of increases in globalization, more people are traveling overseas forwork and education. Research on expatriate and international student adjustment has uncovered avariety of individual difference, psychosocial, and contextual factors that facilitate adjustmentand reduce the likelihood of stress and turnover; however, there remains a dearth of researchexamining more complex relationships between these factors and cross-cultural adjustment. Thepresent study extends the research on cross-cultural adjustment by examining interactionsbetween social support from friends and facets of cultural intelligence (CQ) for predicting cross-cultural adjustment outcomes. In a sample of international students (n = 163), results showed thatmotivational CQ meaningfully predicted all adjustment outcomes; conscientiousness predictedschool-related adjustment; emotionality predicted psychological adjustment; and social supportfrom friends predicted interaction adjustment. Interaction hypotheses were unsupported.Implications for research and practice are discussed. |
