%0 Journal Article
%A Rodríguez-Izquierdo, Rosa M.
%T Intercultural sensitivity among university students: measurement of the construct and its relationship with international mobility programmes
%D 2018
%@ 1578-4118
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10433/5414
%X The purpose of this study was to validate the IDI (InterculturalDevelopment Inventory) and to assess the impact of international mobilityprogrammes on the intercultural sensitivity of university students. For this, aquasi-experimental study was carried out using a longitudinal design of repeatedpre-test and post-test measures, with an experimental group of students whocarried out international mobility programmes and a control group of studentswho did not. The sample consisted of 3,047 university students. The inventoryyielded a five-factor structure (negation/defence, minimization, reversion, acceptance/adaptation and encapsulated marginality) with alpha coefficients rangingfrom .82 to .91, revealing adequate reliability and validity. The results indicate theeffectiveness of the IDI to measure intercultural sensitivity. Although the post-testscores are higher than the pre-test scores for both groups, there are significantdifferences in favour of the experimental group (p = .000) in all factors except thenegation/defence stage. The conclusions focus on the implications of this studyfor curriculum development and policy at an educational level.
%K Intercultural sensitivity
%K Psychometric properties
%K Inventory
%K Mobility programmes
%K University students
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