TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-Efficacy in Intercultural Communication
T2 - The Development and Validation of a Sojourners' Scale
AU - Peterson, Jeffery Chaichana
AU - Milstein, Tema
AU - Chen, Yea Wen
AU - Nakazawa, Masato
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - This study designed and validated an instrument for measuring sojourners' intercultural and everyday communication self-efficacy. Factor analysis of a Likert-type scale completed by Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme respondents (N = 213) identified a unidimensional-factor solution with 34-items loading (α=.95). It revealed negative, positive, and no correlation with existing scales that lent validity to the resulting Sojourner Self-Efficacy in Communication (SSEC) Scale. The authors present both the full scale and a shortened 8-item version (α=.86), and discuss ways the SSEC Scale offers new directions from which to explore issues of intercultural communication and cultural adaptation.
AB - This study designed and validated an instrument for measuring sojourners' intercultural and everyday communication self-efficacy. Factor analysis of a Likert-type scale completed by Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme respondents (N = 213) identified a unidimensional-factor solution with 34-items loading (α=.95). It revealed negative, positive, and no correlation with existing scales that lent validity to the resulting Sojourner Self-Efficacy in Communication (SSEC) Scale. The authors present both the full scale and a shortened 8-item version (α=.86), and discuss ways the SSEC Scale offers new directions from which to explore issues of intercultural communication and cultural adaptation.
KW - Cultural Adaptation
KW - Intercultural Communication
KW - Scale Validation
KW - Self-Efficacy
KW - Sojourning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859358908&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17513057.2011.602476
DO - 10.1080/17513057.2011.602476
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84859358908
SN - 1751-3057
VL - 4
SP - 290
EP - 309
JO - Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
JF - Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
IS - 4
ER -