Cultural Intelligence: o impacto da experiência internacional no nível de inteligência cultural dos alunos da Universidade de Caxias do Sul

Abstract

International experience provides individuals with different kinds of opportunities that other experiences would not. A higher level of cultural intelligence is one of these opportunities and it is up to each one to use a broader worldview in favor of your own self and other cultures, both personally and professionally. Thus, measuring people's cultural intelligence is an important step to start the trajectory of each individual within the scope of knowing themselves and the cultural capacity of each one. This research aims to identify how the international experience affects the level of Cultural Intelligence of undergraduate students at the University of Caxias do Sul. The level of students? Cultural Intelligence from the most varied undergraduate courses was measured through The Expanded Cultural Intelligence Scale, with a sample of 174 respondents, 52 of whom have previous international experience, with different periods living abroad and different types of international experience. Analyzing the averages and their respective statistical importance, it was concluded that, in fact, students who have international experience have a higher level of Cultural Intelligence. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]