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ABSTRACT
Adopting Chen and Starosta’s Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) published in 2000, this study compared intercultural sensitivity of college students in two distinctive institutions: a mid-sized state university in the south and a small private liberal arts school in the mid-west. The results of an online survey with 437 randomly selected students showed that students in the mid-sized state university are more interculturally sensitive than their counterparts in two dimensions of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS). This study also found that two environment variables and one personal character variable are positively related to the student’s level of intercultural sensitivity. Practical implications and limitations of the study are discussed.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank to three anonymous reviewers who provided thoughtful comments on the first draft of this manuscript.
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Notes on contributors
Yunying Zhang
Yunying Zhang (Ph.D in Communication, Washington State University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Austin Peay State University, TN.
Eun-Jeong Han
Eun-Jeong Han (Ph.D in Communication, Washington State University) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Salisbury University, MD.