How does your cultural intelligence contribute to your adjustment? Unveiling the link between cultural intelligence and cross-cultural adjustment using meta-analysis
ISSN: 2049-8799
Article publication date: 16 November 2023
Issue publication date: 6 March 2024
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between cultural intelligence (CQ) and cross-cultural adjustment (CCA) using meta-analytic methods. The paper serves a dual purpose as it critically examines the CQ-CCA literature and provides summary effects using meta-analysis to determine how CQ and its facets affect CCA and its three dimensions.
Design/methodology/approach
A meta-analysis of 77 studies involving 18,399 participants was conducted to obtain the summary effects. The studies reporting the relationship of CQ and/or its facets with CCA or any of its dimensions were included in the analysis.
Findings
Results revealed that CQ (overall) and all individual CQs were positively and significantly related to CCA and its three subdimensions. Although CQ (overall) had a strong effect on CCA and moderate to strong effects on all the subdimensions of CCA, the strongest effect size was measured for the relationship of motivational CQ with CCA. Not only this, when individual CQs' relationships were assessed with the individual adjustment dimensions, the motivational aspect of CQ happened to be the most influencing factor, having a close to strong effect on interaction adjustment.
Research limitations/implications
Since the study combines the results from numerous empirical research conducted over time, it avoids the limitations that an individual study has, which is carried out at a single point in time and on a limited sample.
Originality/value
This study adds to the academic research by critically reviewing the CQ-CCA literature. It also works as a guiding map for future research in the area. The study highlights the summary effects for each association between CQ and CCA and their dimensions, elucidating the mixed findings reported in previous research.
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Acknowledgements
The infrastructural support provided by FORE School of Management, New Delhi, in completing this article is gratefully acknowledged.
Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies.
Citation
Tripathi, C.M., Kaurav, R.P.S. and Singh, T. (2024), "How does your cultural intelligence contribute to your adjustment? Unveiling the link between cultural intelligence and cross-cultural adjustment using meta-analysis", Journal of Global Mobility, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 167-197. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-01-2023-0006
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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