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The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent cultural intelligence contributes to the prediction of cognitive flexibility. The working group of the research consists of 260 teacher candidates studying at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Education. The Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (BEE), developed by Dennis and Vander Wal (2010) and adapted into Turkish by Sapmaz and Doğan (2013); the Cultural Intelligence Scale, developed by Ang et al. (2007) and adapted to Turkish by İlhan and Çetin (2014) was used to collect data in the study. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation) and multiple regression analysis were used in the analysis of the data obtained in the study. According to the findings of the study, the cognitive flexibility and cultural intelligence levels of the teacher candidates are high. While the metacognition and motivation scores of the teacher candidates positively affect the cognitive flexibility level, they do not affect the cognition and behavior scores. In addition, preservice teachers' cultural intelligence total scores significantly predicted their cognitive flexibility levels.

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