Cultural Intelligence and its relation to Global Citizenship among students of the Faculty of Education - Alexandria University, in light of some demographic variables

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer in Educational Psychology - Faculty of Education - Alexandria University.

Abstract

        The current research aimed to find out the level of cultural intelligence and the level of global citizenship among students of the colledge of Education, University of Alexandria, and another aim was to recognize the relationship between cultural intelligence and global citizenship, also to identify the differences between students in cultural intelligence and global citizenship according to gender, specialization, and group. The sample consisted of 418 (131 Male and 287 Female) students selected from first and fourth year at the faculty of education, with a mean age of 19.52 and a standard deviation of 1.870. The researcher used the cultural intelligence scale, and global citizenship scale prepared by the researcher. The results of the study showed that the estimation of students studying at the Faculty of Education for their cultural intelligence was high level, and high level of global citizenship, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between students cultural intelligence and global citizenship, there was no a statistically significant differences in cultural intelligence to the variables gender, academic specialization, and group, and there was no a statistically significant differences in global citizenship to the variables gender, academic specialization, and group.   

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