Król, Juliusz (2022) The Influence of Intercultural Competence on Inclusion and Wellbeing among First-Year Psychology Students. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Intercultural competence refers to a set of values, attitudes, knowledge, and skills required for understanding and engaging appropriately and effectively with people from other cultures. In our study we investigated its relationship with first year students’ well-being and subjective sense of inclusion. Additionally, we decided to focus on how it is predicted by the level of cultural metacognition and the language of the program one chooses to follow. In total 166 students completed the required questionnaires. Of the participants 130 were female, 35 were male and one participant preferred not to say. The average age of the participants was 19.74 (SD= 2.25). The aim of these questionnaires was to obtain information about the participants’ intercultural sensitivity, sense of loneliness, cultural metacognition, well-being, and openness to diversity. Additionally, we conducted 3 interviews, whose aim was to gain quotes to illustrate the variables we investigated. By using correlations, regression analysis, and mediation analysis, we found out that intercultural sensitivity significantly predicted well-being. Moreover, it is significantly predicted by cultural metacognition and the language of the program of choice. However, no significant relationship between intercultural sensitivity and loneliness was found. These results may have been affected by certain limitations, including the fact that the variable loneliness was used instead of inclusion and the variable intercultural sensitivity was used instead of intercultural competence.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Klavina, L. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2022 08:31 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2022 08:31 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1095 |
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