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Over the last two decades, researchers developed different scientific tools that can assess intercultural competence in a variety of contexts and applications. However, these scales were developed for specific applications, such as health studies, business, and management, therefore, it was not appropriate to be used for university students. In addition, all measures of intercultural competence are - by definition – culturedependent. The current study aimed to develop quantitative scales that possess good psychometric properties to measure the components of intercultural competence considering the Arab cultural context, as specified by Byram et al.’s model. The sample of the current study consisted of 679 students, psychology major in Kuwait University. Participants were mostly female (72.3%) with a mean age of 22.5 years (sd = 6.40). Initially, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed. The maximum likelihood estimation (ML) method was used with the allowance of oblique rotation. Then, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to fit the model resulting from EFA analysis using the ML estimator. The present study has shown that it is possible to develop psychometrically sound quantitative measures for assessing intercultural competence. The scales have been found to work well with university students in Kuwait. Future research may examine whether they also work well with populations from different cultural backgrounds.

Abeer Alkheshnam, PhD. (2022) Development and Validation of Intercultural Competence Scale for University Students in Kuwait, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, volume-32, issue 1.
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