Psychometric properties of the Short Form Cultural Intelligence Scale (SFCQ) on female undergraduate students at the University of Jeddah

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the psychometric properties of the Short Form Cultural Intelligence Scale (SFCQ). (Thomas et al., 2015), to verify the validity of its use in the Saudi environment, which was translated to achieve the goal of the study and was applied to a sample size of (404) female bachelor’s students at the University of Jeddah. The results of the study resulted in the quality of the psychometric properties of the cultural intelligence scale. The translated short, as the image achieved high structural validity and high internal consistency reliability, and this is consistent with the original image of the scale and the previous studies that used it, which indicates the validity of using the scale, and makes the researcher recommend using the scale for the purposes of research, surveying, sorting, and developing skills in a way that develops cultural interaction in different contexts