Internationalization at home as a factor affecting intercultural competence. A study among Belgian university students

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Figure 1. Process Model of Intercultural Competence (Deardorff 2006, 2009). Used by permission.

Table 1. Conceptual framework: factors potentially affecting IC.

Independent variables		Dependent variable
Personal data	Gender Faculty (field of study) Year of study Demographic variables (year of birth, place of birth, region where you spent your youth, nationality, immigrant background, highest degree obtained by parents)	IC (knowledge, attitudes, skills, behaviours)
Intercultural and multilingual profile, intensity of contact, personality traits	Intensity of contact (study abroad, intensity of IaH participation, immigrant friends at home, travel/stays abroad, foreign friends) Linguistic background: foreign Languages Mastered and use (number of languages known, number of languages mastered, number of languages used frequently) Personality trait (agreeableness, stability, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness)

Table 2. Regression analysis: Model Summary.

Table 3. Regression analysis: ANOVA results.

Table 4. Regression analysis: Variable coefficients.

Table 5. Revised conceptual framework: Factors explaining variance in IC.

Independent variables	Dependent variable
Intensity of contact (study abroad, the intensity of IaH participation Linguistic background: foreign Languages mastered and used Personality trait (agreeableness, extraversion, openness)	IC (knowledge, attitudes, skills)

Graph 1. IC growth over years of education.

Graph 2. IC values per faculty.

Graph 3. IaH-index scores (mean values) by years of education.

Graph 4. IaH-index scores (mean values) by faculty.

Graph 5. IC development in relation to IaH contact.

Graph 6. Openness scores (mean values) by faculty.

Deardorff, D. K. 2006. “Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization.” Journal of Studies in International Education 10 (3): 241–266. doi:10.1177/1028315306287002.

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Deardorff, D. K., ed. 2009. The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

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