Mindset, Learning Styles, and Cultural Intelligence of Undergraduate Students at Faculty of Social Sciences, Kasetsart University

Abstract

          The purposes of this research were: (1) to study mindset learning style and cultural intelligence of students; (2) to compare the cultural intelligence of students by personal factors; (3)to investigate correlation between mindset and cultural intelligence of students; and (4) to investigate correlation between learning styles and cultural intelligence of students. The sample were 391 undergraduate students at Faculty of Social Sciences, Kasetsart University. which were selected by stratified random sampling. Data were collected by questionnaires and analyzed by computer package program. The statistics were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test (One-way ANOVA), Least Significant Difference (LSD) and Pearson's product moment Correlation Coefficient. The statistical significance were set at .05 and .01 level.

          Results indicated that: (1)students have very high level of growth mindset and a moderate level of fixed mindset, learning styles; (1.convergent 2.divergent 3.assimilation 4.accommodative) were at a very high level and cultural intelligence were at very high level; (2) students with difference gender had difference cultural intelligence which statistical significant at .01; (3) growth mindset had positive correlation with cultural intelligence, while fixed mindset had negatively correlation with cultural intelligence at statistical level .05 ; and (4) learning styles (1.convergent 2.Divergent 3.assimilation 4.accommodative) had positively correlated with cultural intelligence at statistically significance at .01 level.