Measuring Intercultural Sensitivityin Different Cultural Context

As a main dimension of intercultural communication competence,intercultural sensitivity has increasingly gained attention in research indifferent disciplines. In the United States, Chen and Starosta havedeveloped an instrument, comprising 5 factors with 24 items, formeasuring intercultural sensitivity. In this study, we tested Chen andStarosta’s instrument in a German sample by using confirmatory factoranalysis. Overall, the results showed that the instrument holdssatisfactorily. Although the results also suggested that the operationalizationof the concepts in Chen and Starosta’s study can be furtherimproved, the instrument as a whole is a valid one through which aculture-free scale for measuring intercultural sensitivity can bedeveloped....