Relationship between identity styles and academic Help Seeking among non-native students of Islamic Azad University of Urmia: the mediating role of cultural

The inability of cultural adaptation and the lack of intercultural interactions, including the academic problems of non-native students, are indicated by avoiding academic Help Seeking. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to examine the structural test of the relationship between identity styles and academic Help Seeking through cultural intelligence among non-native students of Islamic Azad University of Urmia.
To reach the goal, 210 non-native undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University of Orumieh were selected by simple random sampling as a sample group and responded to the questionnaires of academic Help Seeking, cultural intelligence and identity styles.
The results of the structural equation modeling test showed that there was a positive relationship between intelligence style information with cultural intelligence. On the other hand there was no significant relationship between confused identity style and cultural intelligence, and between normative identity style and cultural intelligence. Furthermore there was a significant relationship between cultural intelligence and academic Help Seeking.
The results of this study showed that the conceptual model with the tested model is fitted, also cultural intelligence has a mediator role in the relationship between the style of information identity and academic help seeking.