EFFECT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS TO CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE: MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH

Abstract

The aim of this research is the people who is working in multicultural environment able to make easier adaptation to different culturals on cultural intelligent and its subdimensions (Metacognitive Intelligence, Cognitive Intelligence, Motivational Intelligence, Behavioral Intelligence), was researched whether demographic specifications ( known languages, sighted countries, educational level and sexuality ) effect on cultural intelligent. Due to this purpose data had been collected 14 different countries and 281 different people. Because of the data which collected under this standard were not distributed normally, hypotheses had been analyzed under the nonparametric tests. On the result of Kruskal-Wallis and Mann Whitney U analyses, it was figured out that cultural intelligent had been differentiated according to known languages, travels and educational levels but not differentiated according to sexuality. Base on acquired datas, was advised same suggestions to researchers and practitioners.