An Investigation of the Relationship between Social and Cultural Intelligence through Structural Equation Model

Abstract

The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between social and cultural intelligence. Relational model was used in the study. The participants of study consisted of 243 university students who were enrolled in different programs at Ziya Gokalp Faculty of Education of Dicle University during spring semester of 2011-2012 academic year. Of the participants, 103 were female and 140 were male. “Tromso Social Intelligence Scale” developed by Silvera, Martinussen and Dahl (2001) was adapted to Turkish by Dogan ve Cetin (2009) to assess students’ social intelligence and “Cultural Intelligence Scale” developed by Ang et al. (2007) and was adapted to Turkish by the researchers to determine students’ cultural intelligence were used. The relationships between social intelligence data set consisting of social information processing, social skills and social awareness variables and cultural intelligence data set consisting of matecognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioral variables was examined by using structural equation model. The results of structural eqution model demonstrated that there was significant relationship between social and cultural intelligence.