The Assessment of Intercultural Communicative Competences: The Adaptation and verification of the psychometric properties of a Czech version of the YOGA questionnaire

The aim of the methodological study is to present the adaptation and psychometric properties of a Czech version of a questionnaire focused on the assessment of intercultural communicative competence to a Czech professional public. This is the YOGA questionnaire developed by a team led by prof. Alvino Fantini in the USA. The questionnaire is an exceptionally valuable instrument because of its clearly defined theoretical rationale as well as its availability. We thus decided to present the process of creation of the Czech version and its qualitative and quantitative verification with the aim of characterising its parameters in the Czech environment. The questionnaire return rate was 78 %. Availability sampling was applied. Analytical procedures were made in the IBM SPPS Statistics version 21, namely exploratory factor analysis, Pearson correlation coefficients and Cronbach’s alpha. The results were quite positive regarding the quality of the YOGA questionnaire.