Birds of different feathers? The relationship between multicultural personality dimensions and foreign language mastery in business professionals working in a Dutch agricultural multinational

Korzilius, Hubert; Hooft, Andreu van; Planken, Brigitte; Hendrix, Christa

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.018

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“…This result confirmed recent findings by Korzilius et al (2011). Total proficiency had a slightly stronger positive effect on Open-mindedness and Social Initiative.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…The correlations between the five dimensions are quite similar to the ones reported in Korzilius et al (2011). A series of one-sample KolmogorovSmirnov analyses revealed that the scores on the five dimensions are normally distributed.…”

Section: Instrumentsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Age was found to be positively correlated with Cultural Empathy, Open-mindedness and Social Initiative. This is markedly different from the Korzilius et al (2011) 16…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 63%

“…While other immigrants could have been much more recent arrivals in some state of culture shock, as was the case of the teenage participants in Dewaele and Van Oudenhoven (2009). The slightly higher scores on Emotional Stability for the locally born participants reflects the finding in Korzilius et al (2011) who found that the Dutch non-international employees scored highest on this dimension. One immigration-related variable that was not considered in Dewaele and Van Oudenhoven (2009) turned out to have a significant effect in the present study, namely, the origin of the participant's parents.…”

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confidence: 78%

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The effect of immigration, acculturation and multicompetence on personality profiles of Israeli multilinguals

Dewaele

Stavans

2012

International Journal of Bilingualism

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The present study investigates the link between immigration, multilingualism, acculturation and personality profiles (as measured by the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire) of 193 residents in Israel. Participants born in Israel tended to score higher on Emotional Stability than those born abroad. Participants with one immigrant parent (but not two) scored higher on Cultural Empathy, Open-mindedness and Social Initiative. Participants who had become dominant in Hebrew as a foreign language scored lower on Emotional Stability than Hebrew L1-dominant participants. The number of languages known by participants was not linked to their personality profile. A high level of use of various languages was linked to significantly higher scores on Cultural Empathy and Open-mindedness. Gender and age were also linked to personality profiles. Advanced knowledge of more languages and frequent use of more languages were linked to higher levels of Social Initiative and Open-mindedness, while advanced knowledge of more languages was also linked to higher levels of Cultural Empathy. These findings confirm that some personality traits are shaped by individuals' linguistic history, degree of multilingualism and a combination of social and biographical factors.

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“…This result confirmed recent findings by Korzilius et al (2011). Total proficiency had a slightly stronger positive effect on Open-mindedness and Social Initiative.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Instrumentsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Age was found to be positively correlated with Cultural Empathy, Open-mindedness and Social Initiative. This is markedly different from the Korzilius et al (2011) 16…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 63%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 78%

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The effect of immigration, acculturation and multicompetence on personality profiles of Israeli multilinguals

Dewaele

Stavans

2012

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Advanced proficiency and frequent use of various languages were linked to significantly higher scores on Cultural Empathy and Openmindedness. Korzilius, Van Hooft, Planken and Hendrix (2011) investigated the link between language knowledge and personality profile. They considered the adjustment of international employees of a Dutch multinational company and used a control group of non-international employees.…”

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Multi-competence and personality

Dewaele¹

2016

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-Competence

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Do medical students who are multilingual have higher spatial and verbal intelligence and do they perform better in anatomy examinations?

Stephens

Moxham

2018

Clinical Anatomy

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We have already reported that medical students who have prior knowledge of classical Greek and Latin perform better in anatomy examinations. It has also been shown that fluency in more than one language can influence spatial and verbal intelligence and here we hypothesize that medical students who have linguistic skills develop higher spatial and verbal intelligence compared with monolingual students, that there are gender differences, and that there are positive effects on performance in anatomy examinations. One hundred and seventy‐three second year medical students at Cardiff University responded to spatial and verbal intelligence questions that were adapted from the British MENSA website. This is a 63% response rate for the student cohort. The students were then categorized into different groups depending upon their linguistic knowledge and skills. Across all groups, no gender differences were discerned for either spatial or verbal intelligence. Students who were categorized as monolingual (with only skills in English) had lower spatial and verbal intelligence than those who were multilingual. Medical students who had fluency in English and non‐European languages showed greater spatial and verbal intelligence than other groups. However, there was no significant improvement in their examination marks for anatomy, although the examination performance might be complicated by cultural considerations. A further finding from our study was that, where an anatomy test required spatial recognition using cadaveric specimens, students with low spatial intelligence had significantly poorer performances. Furthermore, where tests used multiple choice questions, the level of spatial and verbal intelligences had no influence. We would advocate that, when all newly‐recruited medical students are tutored in medical terminologies to help them develop the extensive vocabulary required for their professional careers, they should also be made aware of any deficiencies in spatial and verbal skills that could affect their learning abilities. Given that we would expect students to benefit in their careers from developing spatial and verbal skills, we also recommend that examination tests in anatomy should avoid the exclusive use of multiple choice questions. Clin. Anat., 2018. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Birds of different feathers? The relationship between multicultural personality dimensions and foreign language mastery in business professionals working in a Dutch agricultural multinational

Cited by 37 publications

References 47 publications

The effect of immigration, acculturation and multicompetence on personality profiles of Israeli multilinguals

The effect of immigration, acculturation and multicompetence on personality profiles of Israeli multilinguals

Multi-competence and personality

Do medical students who are multilingual have higher spatial and verbal intelligence and do they perform better in anatomy examinations?

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