French bread, Spanish bulls, Dutch bikes, Irish beers: Testing the development of intercultural competencies of American exchange students in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland

Abstract

This thesis studied the development of intercultural competencies of American exchange students in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland. A statistical analysis of the results of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) showed no significant results for differences in gaining intercultural competencies between male and female students. There were also no statistically meaningful results found to indicate that an exchange in one particular host country would lead to more advancement along the scale of the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS).