The Predictive Ability of Cultural Intelligence and Psychological Hardiness in Academic Adjustment among University Students within the Green Line

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of cultural intelligence and psychological hardiness in the academic adaptation of university students within the Green Line. The sample consisted of 500 university students within the Green Line. The results of the study indicated a high level of cultural intelligence, psychological hardiness and academic adjustment among university students within the Green Line. The results also revealed a statistically significant contribution at the significance level (α=.05) of psychological hardiness in predicting academic adjustments, and it is noted that the Psychological hardness has interpreted 52.1% of the percentage of variance in academic adjustment, that is, psychological hardness has an important and basic role in predicting academic adjustment. As for the cultural intelligence variable, it does not contribute significantly to predicting academic adaptation.