Developing Intercultural Efficiency: The Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and Self-Efficacy

Petr Wawrosz and Miroslav Jurásek
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Miroslav Jurásek: Department of Economics and Management, University of Finance and Administration, 101 00 Praha, Czech Republic

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Cultural intelligence measures an individual’s ability to succeed in a culturally unknown environment. Self-efficacy expresses self-confidence in one’s own ability to handle a situation. The two concepts are closely linked, as confirmed by a number of previous studies. Using the multivariate method PLS-SEM, the predictive effect of CQ on self-efficacy is investigated; compared to previous studies, the relationship causality is reversed. A sample of 190 university students was also tested for how this relationship is moderated by two categorical variables: work experience abroad and gender. The results showed that cultural intelligence is a predictor of intercultural self-efficacy in communication. Its impact on the endogenous variable (self-efficacy) is rather weak, but significantly strengthened by work experience abroad. Gender has no effect on this relationship.

Keywords: cultural intelligence; self-efficacy; work experience abroad; intercultural efficiency; CQ development; PLS-SEM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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