Measuring Intercultural Sensitivity in Different Cultural Context

was supported by the Professor-Otto-Beisheim-Stiftung, Munich, Germany. As a main dimension of intercultural communication competence, intercultural sensitivity has increasingly gained attention in research in different disciplines. In the United States, Chen and Starosta have developed an instrument, comprising 5 factors with 24 items, for measuring intercultural sensitivity. In this study, we tested Chen and Starosta’s instrument in a German sample by using confirmatory fac-tor analysis. Overall, the results showed that the instrument holds satisfactorily. Although the results also suggested that the operatio-nalization of the concepts in Chen and Starosta’s study can be further improved, the instrument as a whole is a valid one through which a culture-free scale for measuring intercultural sensitivity can be developed.