Students’ Culture Shock and Cultural Intelligence:

Culture shock due to failure in integrating with people from different cultural backgrounds has frequently caused some students studying or doing an internship abroad to be so disappointed, frustrated, and even stressed or depressed that they fail in their study or internship. This study examines Bung Hatta University students’ culture shock, cultural intelligence, and the effect of the students’ cultural intelligence on the students’ culture shock, who did an internship in Japan. The study has the objectives to find the students’ culture shock and their cultural intelligence concerning their culture shock. This study posits cultural intelligence in the examination doe to that cultural intelligence can act to minimize the impact of culture shock. To achieve the objectives, the study applied a quantitative method with an online survey based on the theoretical concept of culture shock. The results were that the students had low culture shock. Most of them did not get the impact of culture shock in integrating with people from the Japanese cultural environment. The students’ cultural intelligence had a positive relationship with the low culture shock. Cultural intelligence could minimize the negative impact of culture shock on the students. Most of the students did not feel culturally socked from Japanese culture. In internship activity in Japan, they could act verbally and non-verbally in integrating with Japanese people.