Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience on undergraduates’ intercultural sensitivity at the start of university studies

Figures & data

Table 1. T-tests of the mean scores of the five IS dimensions by gender.

Dimension	Male (N=301)	Female (N=580)	Mean difference	p	Cohen’s d
Engagement	3.88	4.16	0.28	<.001	.56
Respect	4.17	4.43	0.26	<.001	.50
Confidence	3.59	3.68	0.09	.087	-
Enjoyment	3.98	4.21	0.24	<.001	.33
Attentiveness	3.83	4.07	0.24	<.001	.41

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of IS differential variables per dimension.

		Engagement	Respect	Confidence	Enjoyment	Attentiveness
Variables and corresponding values	N	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Birthplace
Barcelona	446	4.05 (0.51)	4.33 (0.54)	3.65 (0.71)	4.13 (0.71)	3.99 (0.58)
Rest of Catalonia	215	4.04 (0.51)	4.30 (0.53)	3.61 (0.72)	4.12 (0.68)	3.98 (0.59)
Rest of Spain	109	4.15 (0.48)	4.46 (0.45)	3.61 (0.66)	4.19 (0.64)	3.99 (0.63)
Abroad	111	4.09 (0.49)	4.32 (0.53)	3.75 (0.64)	4.10 (0.78)	4.03 (0.54)
Place of Schooling
Catalonia	702	4.03 (0.51)	4.31 (0.54)	3.65 (0.70)	4.11 (0.71)	3.98 (0.58)
Rest of Spain	113	4.19 (0.47)	4.47 (0.44)	3.64 (0.64)	4.20 (0.62)	4.03 (0.58)
Abroad	35	4.13 (0.41)	4.50 (0.42)	3.81 (0.77)	4.28 (0.73)	4.11 (0.59)
Catalonia & Rest of Spain	7	4.06 (0.64)	4.33 (0.33)	3.11 (1.09)	4.05 (0.80)	4.10 (0.86)
Catalonia & Abroad	21	4.21 (0.59)	4.25 (0.61)	3.73 (0.59)	4.29 (0.86)	4.00 (0.67)
Rest of Spain & Abroad	3	4.29 (0.29)	4.39 (0.42)	3.33 (0.42)	4.11 (1.02)	3.67 (0.67)
Number of Intern’l Friendships
None	269	3.91 (0.51)	4.27 (0.55)	3.33 (0.71)	3.92 (0.67)	3.79 (0.60)
Few (1–3)	384	4.08 (0.50)	4.32 (0.54)	3.70 (0.63)	4.12 (0.70)	4.02 (0.54)
Many (>3)	228	4.23 (0.46)	4.46 (0.47)	3.94 (0.65)	4.41 (0.65)	4.18 (0.56)
Number of First Languages
Monolingual	484	4.02 (0.51)	4.31 (0.54)	3.62 (0.68)	4.08 (0.72)	3.96 (0.58)
Bilingual	371	4.11 (0.49)	4.36 (0.51)	3.67 (0.73)	4.19 (0.68)	4.03 (0.59)
Trilingual	26	4.30 (0.34)	4.51 (0.34)	3.82 (0.64)	4.23 (0.67)	4.09 (0.49)
Number of Additional Lang.
One	177	4.09 (0.52)	4.36 (0.51)	3.58 (0.77)	4.06 (0.72)	3.96 (0.60)
Two	366	4.04 (0.51)	4.30 (0.56)	3.63 (0.67)	4.15 (0.68)	3.95 (0.58)
Three	265	4.05 (0.49)	4.35 (0.51)	3.67 (0.68)	4.11 (0.73)	4.03 (0.59)
Four or more	69	4.20 (0.48)	4.44 (0.44)	3.82 (0.70)	4.31 (0.66)	4.16 (0.48)

SD: Standard deviation.