Kokubun Keisuke, Nemoto Kiyotaka, Yamakawa Yoshinori
Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Brain Behav. 2025 May;15(5):e70576. doi: 10.1002/brb3.70576.
Cultural intelligence (CQ) has been attracting increasing attention in recent years as a necessary caability for adapting to a different culture and improving expatriate performance (EP). However, the methods for improving this intelligence have not been fully elucidated, and in particular, the relationship with lifestyle (LS) has hardly been clarified.
In this paper, we therefore conducted a cross-sectional analysis using questionnaire response data obtained from 184 Japanese expatriates working for Japanese subsidiaries overseas in Study 1, and in Study 2, we measured changes in 15 of them as an exploratory pilot study after using a smartphone app with health promotion functions for two weeks.
The results showed that CQ mediated the relationship between LS and EP in both Study 1 and Study 2.
The results of this study suggest that a health science approach that improves LS can be effective in improving the EP of businesspeople working in different cultural environments through improving their CQ.
近年来，文化智力（CQ）作为适应不同文化和提高外派人员绩效（EP）的一项必要能力，受到了越来越多的关注。然而，提高这种智力的方法尚未得到充分阐明，特别是与生活方式（LS）的关系几乎没有得到明确。
因此，在本文中，我们进行了一项横断面分析，在研究1中使用从184名在海外日本子公司工作的日本外派人员获得的问卷回复数据，在研究2中，我们在让其中15人使用具有健康促进功能的智能手机应用程序两周后，作为一项探索性试点研究测量了他们的变化。
结果表明，在研究1和研究2中，CQ都介导了LS与EP之间的关系。
本研究结果表明，通过改善LS的健康科学方法，可通过提高CQ有效改善在不同文化环境中工作的商务人士的EP。
