TY - JOUR
T1 - The Multicultural Personality Questionnaire
T2 - Reliability and validity of self- and other ratings of multicultural effectiveness
AU - Van der Zee, K.I.
AU - Van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter
PY - 2001/9
Y1 - 2001/9
N2 - The present study considered the reliability and validity of the 78-item revised version of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire, a multidimensional instrument aimed at measuring multicultural effectiveness among two student samples (N = 210). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on self- and other ratings for an original set of 138 items revealed five reliable factors underlying the questionnaire: Cultural Empathy, Openmindedness, Emotional Stability, Social Initiative, and Flexibility. In addition, initial support for the validity of the instrument was obtained by showing convergence between self and other ratings on the scales. Moreover, the instrument was clearly able to discriminate between students with and without explicit international inspirations. The dimension of Cultural Empathy was least well supported.
AB - The present study considered the reliability and validity of the 78-item revised version of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire, a multidimensional instrument aimed at measuring multicultural effectiveness among two student samples (N = 210). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on self- and other ratings for an original set of 138 items revealed five reliable factors underlying the questionnaire: Cultural Empathy, Openmindedness, Emotional Stability, Social Initiative, and Flexibility. In addition, initial support for the validity of the instrument was obtained by showing convergence between self and other ratings on the scales. Moreover, the instrument was clearly able to discriminate between students with and without explicit international inspirations. The dimension of Cultural Empathy was least well supported.
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U2 - 10.1006/jrpe.2001.2320
DO - 10.1006/jrpe.2001.2320
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0042911472
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 35
SP - 278
EP - 288
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 3
ER -
