An Examination of Correlation between Cultural Intelligence Level and Aggression

Abstract

This study aimed to determine if there is any correlation between cultural intelligence and aggression levels ofteacher candidates studying at a university in Turkey. Participants of the study were 214 teacher candidates graduated andenrolled pedagogical formation classes on 2016-2017 academicyears. 146 (%71,9) were women and 57 (% 28,1) were men of thestudy group. Both the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) and theBuss-Perry Aggression Scale (BPAS) were applied together. Results of frequencies showed that motivation subdimension ofcultural intelligence is the highest on Turkish teacher candidates, while metacognitive subdimension is the lowest. According to the Spearman’s correlation results, there is a significantassociation between the total intelligence level and total aggression level which was an expected result.