Personality, Cultural Intelligence, and Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Test of the Mediation Hypothesis

Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 159-173

  Ward, Colleen ^a   Fischer, Ronald ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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