Level Cultural Intelligence for Counselor Candidates and Its Implications for Education

Abstract

The study aims to describe the level of cultural intelligence of students using the cultural intelligence scale (CQS) and its implications for education. The research subjects were 332 students. The results of the CQS show that 4.9% of prospective counselor students are in the low category. The low cultural intelligence of students is indicated by the results per dimension, namely Drive 15 (4.6%), Knowledge 15 (4.6%), Strategy 23 (6.9%), and Action 25 (7.5%). The implication in the world of education is that the Cultural intelligence scale (CQS) can be used to find factors that may exist and contribute to increasing students’ cultural intelligence abilities. In addition, based on the results of the scale, the cultural intelligence of prospective counselor students needs to be developed and improved to be optimal to support the fulfillment of cross-cultural competencies so that it is also recommended as reflection and development material for guidance and counseling lecturers, school counselors, education practitioners, students, and further researchers.