Validation of the 20-Item Cultural Intelligence Scale in Indian within Country Migrated Students

Abstract

The objective of the present piece of work was to validation of 20 item cultural intelligence scale (CIS-20) in India within country migrated students. Following the incidental cum random sampling technique 200 North Indian engineering students within the age range of 18 to 24 years were drawn from different colleges of Warangal districts, Telangana, India to serve as participants in the present research work. The item analysis was done by corrected item-total correlation. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed to confirm explored factors. Moreover, reliability, convergent, discriminant and concurrent validities were also examined. Conformity factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the four factor model of CIS-20. The findings indicated that CIS-20 has sufficient convergent and discriminant validity. The composite reliability was more than .700 for each of the five factors. All five factors of the CIS-20 are significantly associated with criterion measure viz. acculturative stress. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of internal consistency and construct validity of CIS-20. The theoretical and practical issues have been discussed.