Ethnic-related diversity engagement differences in intercultural sensitivity among Malaysian undergraduate students

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Table 1 Ranges, means, SDs, and Pearson correlation coefficients.

Variables	α	Range	Mean	SD	IAR	IO	IC
Ethnic-related diversity engagement	0.76	1.20–5.00	3.67	0.845	0.25*	0.23*	0.37*
IAR	0.86	2.43–5.00	3.72	0.589	–	0.44*	0.60*
IO	0.90	2.63–5.00	4.07	0.573	–	–	0.41*
IC	0.85	2.20–5.00	3.56	0.645	–	–	–

Note: IAR, interaction attentiveness and respect; IC, interaction confidence; IO, interaction openness.

*p = 0.000

Table 2 Mean (SD) values of intercultural sensitivity by dimensions across three levels of ethnic-related diversity engagement.

Dimension of intercultural sensitivity	Level of ethnic-related diversity engagement			Partial η^2
	Low	Moderate	High
	(n = 149)	(n = 164)	(n = 134)
Interaction attentiveness and respect^a	3.58 (0.570)	3.68 (0.556)	3.93 (0.595)	0.068
Interaction openness^b	3.91 (0.499)	4.04 (0.474)	4.29 (0.496)	0.047
Interaction confidence^c	3.33 (0.585)	3.55 (0.586)	3.86 (0.655)	0.130

a F(2, 447) = 16.16, p = 0.000.

b F(2, 447) = 10.96, p = 0.000.

c F(2, 447) = 33.06, p = 0.000.

Table 3 Results of post hoc test of comparison.

Dimension of intercultural sensitivity	Comparison	Mean difference	Standard error	p
Interaction attentiveness and respect	High vs. moderate	0.259	0.068	0.000
	High vs. low	0.389	0.069	0.000
	Moderate vs. low	0.129	0.065	0.149
Interaction openness	High vs. moderate	0.134	0.075	0.227
	High vs. low	0.354	0.077	0.000
	Moderate vs. low	0.220	0.073	0.008
Interaction confidence	High vs. moderate	0.353	0.071	0.000
	High vs. low	0.584	0.072	0.000
	Moderate vs. low	0.231	0.069	0.002