Honors Theses. Paper 5. Pathways to Global Remediation: A Study of Group Identity and Global Consciousness

This study surveyed the problematic global conditions giving rise to the global citizenship movement. The dearth of empirical evidence examining the relationships between global citizenship identification and global consciousness, led the researcher to examine correlations betweenglobal consciousness and group identities. Participants completed an online survey that included two standardized measurements: 1) Cultural Intelligence test (CO) that measures attitudes and 2) Global Awareness Profile (GAP) that measures knowledge. Respondents were 118 American Social Work, Nursing, Business, and Global Honors undergraduates. Findings suggested that the best indicator of knowledge and attitudes, conducive to global consciousness, was the level of identification as global citizen, with higher levels of identification as a global citizen having a positive correlation with attitudes and knowledge. For environmentalist there was a statistically significant positive relationship regarding knowledge but no significant relationship regarding attitudes. Whereas the identities of other nationality or religious/spiritual had an inverse relationship with higher levels of identification resulting in lower knowledge and attitude scores, the group identity of American produced no statisticall