The contribution of Social Intelligence and Cultural Intelligence in predicting Extraversion for male and female university students

The aim of this research is to identify the correlation between Social Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Extraversion among university students, and to know the contribution of both Social Intelligence and Cultural Intelligence in predicting Extraversion among university students, in addition to knowing the differences between the sexes on Social Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Extraversion among university students. The sample included (400) male and female students at Alexandria University, (200) males and (200) females.They responded to the Social Intelligence Scale (developed by the present researcher), the Cultural Intelligence Scale (developed by the present researcher), and the Extraversion Scale (by Eysenck and translated by Abdel-Khalek). The results showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between social intelligence, cultural intelligence, and extraversion, and that social intelligence and cultural intelligence have a contribution in predicting extraversion among university students by (24.2%), but the contribution of social intelligence is the largest in prediction, as the results revealed. It is found that female students are more socially intelligent than male students, while there are no differences between the sexes on both cultural intelligence and extraversion. The results were interpreted in the light of the results of previous studies and the theoretical framework in psychology