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Extraversion, Openness to Experience, and Global Career Intention: The Mediating Role of Cultural Intelligence
Author(s) -
Presbitero Alfred
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/joec.12090
Subject(s) - openness to experience , extraversion and introversion , psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , personality , cultural intelligence , hierarchical structure of the big five , big five personality traits and culture
Drawing from social cognitive career theory, this study asserts that the personality traits of extraversion and openness to experience are positively and significantly related to global career intention (GCI). Moreover, drawing from self‐efficacy theory, this study asserts that cultural intelligence mediates the relationship between these personality traits and GCI. Results from a study in Australia of 158 undergraduate students demonstrated that extraversion and openness to experience are positively and significantly related to GCI. Results also showed that cultural intelligence partially mediates the relationship between (a) extraversion and GCI and (b) openness to experience and GCI.