Reviewing the relation between the automatic thought patterns of university students and their levels of cultural intelligence

Abstract

PurposeThis research aims at reviewing the relation between the automatic thought patterns of female university students and their cultural intelligence levels.MethodThe research was planned to be descriptive. The universe of the research was composed of female university students in staying student hostel. The sample was determined to be the whole of the universe. A written permission was taken from the management of hostel regarding the research. Cultural Intelligence Scala and Automatic Thoughts Scale; the form towards socio-demographic data prepared by the researchers was used. SPSS-19 software programme were used to analyze the data.ResultsThe participants were a total of 400 people, with %100 female. Automatic thoughts scale of respondents found a total of 85.23 points. This score is above average. That is more negative perceptions of student life. Cultural intelligence scale total score of 81.21 was found. Cultural intelligence level of students is above average. There was correlation between the two scales.Discussion and conclusionStatistically significant relations were determined between Cultural Intelligence Scala and sub-scales regarding Automatic Thoughts Scale.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.