Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 290-309 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of International and Intercultural Communication |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2011 |
Keywords
- Cultural Adaptation
- Intercultural Communication
- Scale Validation
- Self-Efficacy
- Sojourning
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