scholarly journals Transfer of Social Competencies to the Intercultural Environment. The Relationship between Social and Cultural Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-92
Author(s):  
Miroslav Jurásek ◽  
Irina Strelnikova ◽  
Janna Lédlová
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Intercultural Experience ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the article: The purpose of this quantitative empirical study is to examine the relationship between social and cultural intelligence. The aim is to determine whether social skills are transferable and applicable anywhere, regardless of external conditions given by cultural diff erences. Methodology/methods: Data were collected using an online questionnaire, which was completed by 92 students studying economics and management at universities in the Czech Republic. Data were analyzed using the PLS-SEM method. Scientific aim: The aim is to determine the predictive power of the social intelligence construct (SQ) (and their individual components - processing, skills and awareness) on the target variable, cultural intelligence (CQ). The mediation influence of two traditional antecedents of cultural intelligence, language skills and intercultural, experience is compared. The stability (immutability) of the basic theoretical model, the relationship between social and cultural intelligence, depending on gender, is also examined. Findings: It has been found, that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between social and cultural intelligence. Social skills have the greatest eff ect on cultural intelligence, but our data did not confi rm the statistically signifi cant effect of one dimension of SQ (awareness). The relationship between SQ and CQ is well explained by language skills; complementary mediation was confirmed. On the contrary, the second mediator examined, intercultural experience, does not explain the SQ-CQ relationship. Only a direct eff ect was identifi ed. The found relationship applies equally to men and women. No statistically significant difference was found between the two groups. Conclusions: The results of our study are important for HR management and personnel management, who select new employees. The knowledge can also be used to make decisions about sending employees abroad: individuals with a high SQ are likely to do well and be work-effi cient, both at home and abroad. A limitation of our research to some extent distorting its results and findings is a relatively small sample, or certain problems associated with the measurement of individual constructs. Suggestions for further research are discussed.

scholarly journals Understanding Food Literacy in Urban Gardeners: A Case Study of the Twin Cities, Minnesota

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Grubb ◽  
Christian R. Vogl
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Food Literacy ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship

Substantial urbanization has allowed individuals to become increasingly spatially and psychologically distanced from the food system and agricultural practices. Food literacy (FL) has been described as a promising approach to reconnect the city with the country and furthermore address public health issues such as obesity and diet-related disease. The present study examined urban gardening through the lens of the FL approach to determine whether a relationship exists between gardening and FL. The research further investigated the relationship between FL and gardener demographics, participation in educational garden events and socialization among gardeners. Data was collected using an online questionnaire targeted to reach community gardeners (n = 181) in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The research utilized a novel exam and self-perception based measurement tool to assess gardeners’ level of FL. Results indicated a moderately positive relationship between the years of gardening experience and higher individual FL scores. Participants with higher levels of FL were older individuals and more highly educated. There was no significant difference in FL between gardeners who attended educational events and those that had not. The present research presents an initial investigation into the relationship between food literacy and gardening. This research indicates gardening may warrant consideration in holistic approaches to food literacy but further investigation would be valuable.

Social Intelligence as a Predictor of Loneliness in the Workplace

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatos Silman ◽  
Tayfun Dogan
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Companionship ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe aim of this research is to examine the relationship between social intelligence and loneliness of academics in the workplace. This study involves 326 (149 female/177 male) academics employed in various universities in Turkey and North Cyprus. The age average of participants is 39.09 years. In this study, the Loneliness at Work Scale (LAWS) and Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS) have been utilized. The data were analyzed using multiple regression and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient analysis techniques. The findings showed that social information processing, social skills, and social awareness, which are the sub-dimensions of social intelligence, positively explained 26% of social deprivation. Social skills and social awareness positively explained 13% of social companionship. The findings also showed that the social information processing sub-dimension did not meaningfully explain social companionship.

scholarly journals How to Improve Communication within an Organization? The Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and Language Competence

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-81
Author(s):  
Miroslav Jurásek ◽  
Tomislav Potocký
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Effective Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractObjective: This article deals with the effective functioning of an organization in the international context. It focuses on the two key aspects of the communication in this respects: cultural intelligence (CQ), the capacity to operate successfully in the multicultural setting, and the quality of internal communication; it is investigated whether CQ (and its components: metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural) are rather related to the number of foreign languages or the language proficiency a person (or an employee) knows (has).Methodology: The sample of 132 undergraduate students of the English and Czech study programs at one private business university in the Czech Republic was used. The Spearman correlation coefficient, Chi–Square test for independence and the one–way ANOVA test (all of them conducted in the statistical program IBM SPSS Statistics 21) are calculated in the paper.Findings: CQ depends on the quality (the level of proficiency) rather than the quantity (the number) of foreign language skills. This conclusion applies regardless of gender: our data did not confirm that language skills were gender-dependent.Value Added: Recently a very fashionable cultural intelligence (CQ) construct has been explored in relation to a variety of variables and outputs. Nevertheless, insufficient attention has been given to the relationship between cultural intelligence and language competence so far; moreover, the research has brought contradictory results up to now. This study fills the actual knowledge gap.Recommendations: It is shown that in terms of the effective functioning in a culturally unknown environment and with a restricted time to learn foreign languages, it is preferable to develop continuously one´s skills in lingua franca than parallel and more superficial studies of several languages.

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTOR SKILLS AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabia Gamze Ecevit ◽  
Mehmet Şahin
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Skills Assessment ◽  
Social Skills Assessment ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Body Mass Indexes ◽  
The Relationship

<p>This study aimed to examine the relationship between motor skills and social skills of preschool children regarding to age, gender, and body mass indexes. A total of 160 typically developing preschool children from the 5 – 6 age groups participated in the study. The families of the children gave consent forms to participate in the study. The Test of Gross Motor Development, 3rd Edition tool (TGMD-III), and Preschool Social Skills Assessment Tool (PSSAT) were used in the study. We performed frequency and percentage analysis for descriptive statistics on the demographic characteristics of the participants. The researchers estimated the minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation values of the scales used in the study and the sub-dimensions of these scales. Skewness and kurtosis values for normality and applied Shapiro-Wilk (Normal Fit Test) were examined. We also calculated Cronbach's alpha values for the validity-reliability analysis of the Preschool Social Skills Assessment Tool. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-tests for gender and age comparisons, and Kruskal-Wallis analyses were employed to examine body mass indexes. We performed Pearson Correlation analysis to determine the relationship between motor skills and social skills. The result of the research showed that the motor skills of preschool children showed a significant difference according to the gender of the children (p&lt;0.05). Preschool children were exposed to a significant difference according to children's ages in terms of locomotor skills and total motor skills (p&lt;0.01). The social skills of these children revealed a statistically significant difference in line with their gender (p&lt;0.01). On the other hand, there was no statistically significant difference according to the age of the children (p&gt;0.05). The body mass index of preschool children's ground motor and social skills did not show a statistically significant difference according to their Body Mass Index (BMI) levels (p&gt;0.05). Our study could not identify a meaningful relationship between motor skills and the children's social skills (p&gt;0.05).</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0862/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Social Intelligence and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour of Government Parastatals in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Dr. Oshi, Joseph E. O. ◽  
Akaibe, Moses V. ◽  
Chikwe, Joyce O.
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Rivers State ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigate the relationship between social intelligence and organizational citizenship behaviour of Government Parastatals in Rivers State. Social Skill (SS) and Social Information Processing (SP) was used as dimensions of social intelligence as against the measures of organization citizenship behaviour which are altruism, sportsmanship, conscientiousness sportsmanship, courtesy and civic virtue. Two hypotheses were developed and tested within a population size of hundred (100) senior level employees that was conveniently selected from twenty (20) Government Parastatals in Rivers state. One hundred (100) of these employees were issued copies of questionnaires but only ninety-four (94) questionnaires were retuned and used for this study. The spearman rank correlation coefficient was used to test the hypotheses with the aid of the SPSS v20.0. Findings from the analysis showed that social skills has a moderate and positive relationship between social skills and the measures organization citizenship behaviour while social information processing showed a low but positive relationship with the measures of organization citizenship behaviour. The study therefore concludes that there is a significant relationship between social intelligence and measures of organization citizenship behaviour of Government Parastatals in Rivers State. Based on the conclusion, the study proffered relevant recommendations like providing management programs related to the development of social skills among others.

Continuity of Nurse Caregivers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Doyle Settle
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Conservation Model ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

There is growing evidence that continuity of nurse caregivers (CNC) has an effect on outcomes for infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units. Using Levine’s conservation model, the relationship of infant acuity and CNC for 50 infants born between 24 and 40 weeks gestation was explored. A statistically significant difference was found between the variable acuity and CNC (F = 8.65, p = .01). Results suggest that high infant acuity is strongly related to high CNC but may be the effect of a third variable. CNC may support the emergence of physiological, structural, and social competencies for convalescing premature infants.

The Relationship between Language Skills and Outcomes of the PATHS Curriculum

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Luisa Rossi ◽  
Janet Fletcher ◽  
Robin Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Significant Trend ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Language Difficulties ◽  
Language Measures ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPrevious research has established a relationship between children's language development and their behaviour. The aim of the present study was to determine whether children's language ability influenced the degree to which their behaviour changed following participation in the PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) curriculum. Participants were 86 pre-primary children who attended two mainstream schools in regional Western Australia. Analyses of pre- and post-intervention behaviour and language measures found PATHS to be effective for improving the behaviour and social skills of children with language difficulties. Changes in children with better language skills showed a positive but non-significant trend. Although a relationship was found between children's general language skills and their behaviour at pre-intervention, changes observed in behaviour were not accompanied by changes in language skills at post-intervention.

scholarly journals Analysis of Sports and Social Skill Relation in a Non-Sportive Group

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Aylin Zekioglu ◽  
Arkun Tatar ◽  
Hudanur Ozdemir
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Frequency Of Sports Participation

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between social skills and sports participation of non-athlete participants. The data of this study were collected by using the Convenience Sampling Method from 197 females (59.3%) and 135 males (40.7%), a total of 332 participants, ranging in age from 17 to 67 years (mean=28.72±9.31 years). When asked about the frequency of engaging in sports, while 43 (13.0%) of the respondents reported regular participation and 117 (53.3%) reported occasional participation, and 112 (33.7%) were non-participants. The participants completed the “A Social Skills Scale” for adults consisting of 80 items, and the Socio-demographic Form. The results showed that the Internal Consistency Coefficient for the scale was 0.93. In order to compare the three groups (regular participants, occasional participants, and non-participants) and other variables in terms of the total score of the scale, the two-way ANOVA test was used. There were significant differences in social skill degrees between three groups which were constituted based on frequency of sports participation, between the genders, and between the two groups that were formed considering where participants spent most of their lives (big cities or small towns). On the other hand, no significant difference was observed between participants’ social skills according to age and socioeconomic variables like marital status, education, occupational and financial status. Findings were discussed in the context of the related literature.

scholarly journals Impact of a Fashion fTRACE App on the Perception of Sustainability

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Jochen Strähle ◽  
Franziska Girwert
Keyword(s):  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Searching Behavior ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fashion Students ◽  
Information Searching Behavior

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the consumers’ perception of sustainability and the application of a QR-code in stores with the focus on the information searching behavior regarding sustainable aspects. An online questionnaire was conducted with fashion students at Reutlingen University: in total, 65 students participated in the survey. Paired samples t-test and other statistical analyses were applied to test research questions. Apart from this, the research paper is based on a literature review. Furthermore, the decision was taken to use a projective method in the form of a dummy fashion fTRACE website. Key findings of the survey are that participants give sustainable aspects a higher importance with a QR-code than without one. Participants who prefer a product with detailed information experience a “positive shopping feeling” when provided with transparency via a QR-code. “Origin”, “production” and “quality” were rated of higher importance by those participants. These findings suggest that, transparency provided through the application of a QR-Code in stores influences the consumers’ perception of sustainability. Due to the small sample size of participants (65) in the study, findings of this research not generalizable to a larger population. This paper focused on the consumers’ information searching behavior regarding sustainable aspects, limiting its findings to impacts on perception of sustainability. Further research is therefore recommended.

scholarly journals VALIDATION OF THE CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE SCALE ON A SERBIAN SAMPLE

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Jelena Starčević ◽  
Danijela S. Petrović ◽  
Darko Komnenić
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intercultural Experience ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Social And Emotional Intelligence

This study deals with determining reliability, factorial validity, and convergent-discriminant validity of the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) and its subscales on a sample of university students in Serbia (N = 336). The convergent-discriminant validity of the scale and its four subscales are verified by testing the relationship with measures of social and emotional intelligence (Social Skills Inventory), personality (Big Five), and self-assessment of intercultural experience. The study results reveal high reliability of the scale and its subscales (.79 ≤ α ≤ .90), and confirm the four-factor structure of the CQS in accordance with the theoretical model that lies in its basis. In addition, the relationships of cultural intelligence measures and measures of other constructs are in line with the expectations. The correlations with measures of social and emotional intelligence are mostly statistically significant, ranging from low to moderate. Deviations from this pattern of correlations are explained by certain characteristics of the Social Skills Inventory, which imply the nature of the components of cultural intelligence at the same time. The CQS and its subscales reach the strongest correlation with Openness (.24 ≤ .r ≤ .41), compared to other basic dimensions of personality, but not to an extent that would suggest that they are indicators of the same construct. The correlations of the CQS and its subscales with the measures of intercultural experience are positive and mostly statistically significant. The results, in general, support the implementation of the CQS for assessment of individual differences in the intercultural interaction in the Serbian population.

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