Measuring intercultural sensitivity: The intercultural development inventory

Intercultural Sensitivity and Cross-cultural Adjustment among Malaysian Students Abroad

“…Eliminating response-bias is important to ensure the trustfulness of the survey result. Besides, future research can also incorporate a control experimental group (involves the participants within the same ethnic group) to look at the social desirability impact against the measure instrument, especially with regard to the intercultural interactions (Hammer, Bennett & Wiseman, 2003). Hence, further analysis is granted to check model fit analysis on the structural model as in the present study.…”

Intercultural Business Management Development and Education Programs in Business Schools

“…For contacts and inter relationships between cultures to be more effective are required recognition of cultural differences under the conditions of having an intercultural mentality, intercultural sensitivity and intercultural skills (Hammer, Bennett, & Wiseman 2003: Bennett, 2001ª, 2001b, 2001cBennett, 1993).…”

Interpersonal Networks in Foreign Assignments and Intercultural Learning Processes

“…Integration of cultural difference is the state in which one's experience of self is expanded to include the movement in and out of different cultural worldviews (Hammer, Bennett, & Wiseman, 2003 , p. 424-425). Hammer et al ( 2003 ) summarized that, in general, the more ethnocentric orientations can be seen as ways of avoiding cultural difference, either by denying its existence, by raising defenses against it, or by minimizing its importance (p. 426). The more ethnorelative worldviews are ways of seeking cultural difference, either by accepting its importance, by adapting perspective to take it into account, or by integrating the whole concept into a defi nition of identity.…”

“…This theoretical framework provided conceptual guidance for Hammer et al ( 2003 ) as they undertook the construction of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) to measure the orientations toward cultural differences described in the DMIS. The result of this work is a 50-item, paper-and-pencil instrument (with 10 additional demographic items).…”