Cultural Intelligence among Young Adults: Its Impact on Intercultural Communication and Sociocultural Adaptation
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The present study aims to examine the impact of cultural intelligence (CQ) on intercultural communication apprehension (ICA) and sociocultural adaptation (SCA) among university students. It also investigates how individuals from different geographical regions differ with respect to these variables. A total of 224 students were purposively selected from different universities in the Bathinda district of Punjab, India. For collecting the data, the Cultural Intelligence Scale (Ang et al., 2007), the Intercultural Communication Apprehension Scale by Neuliep & McCroskey (1997), and the Socio-cultural Adaptation Scale-Revised (Wilson, 2012) were utilized. The statistical analysis was done on IBM SPSS V27. Results revealed a significant correlation between all the components of CQand ICA, and SCA is correlated to every dimension of CQ except meta-cognitive CQ. Moreover, on examining the impact, the motivational CQ impacts ICA, and both cognitive and motivational CQ impact sociocultural adaptation.Additionally the result revealed that there is a difference in cognitive CQ, a dimension of CQ and SCA among students from different geographical boundaries.
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