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Interculturality and social skills? Relationships of the stays abroad of students of different faculties with intercultural and social competence

  • Possessing skills in social and intercultural interaction is vitally important for employees who work in globalized environments, especially as people's working lives tend to involve an increasingly large amount of service-related activities. As a consequence, universities offer cultural studies courses and strive to enable their students to study abroad for a period of time. However, there is still no widely shared agreement on how intercultural experiences and cultural preparation courses predict the perception, thinking and acting of individuals. Therefore, the study at hand uses a cross-sectional design with N = 430 participants in order to investigate whether students of cultural studies gain more intercultural competencies during the time spent studying abroad, compared to studies of other subjects. The results reveal that students of cultural subjects show significantly higher levels of cultural empathy and openness in the post hoc measurement, even though there was no interaction effect with the amount of time spent studying abroad. Length of stay abroad had a significant indirect effect on social competence via all the dimensions of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire. Moreover, results indicate that flexibility to adapt one's behaviour to cultural norms may predict problems when returning to one's home country.

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Author:Petia Genkova, Henrik Schreiber, Meike Gäde
Title (English):Interculturality and social skills? Relationships of the stays abroad of students of different faculties with intercultural and social competence
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:959-opus-22122
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2513
ISSN:1099-1298
ISSN:1052-9284
Parent Title (English):Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2021
Release Date:2021/07/06
Volume:31
Issue:4
First Page:410
Last Page:424
Faculties:Fakultät WiSo
DDC classes:300 Sozialwissenschaften / 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Review Status:Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International