Modeling the Structural Equation Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and the school Culture

The study aimed to formulate and test structural equation model of relationship between school administrators’ cultural intelligence of and school culture. The research method is descriptive-survey and statistical population includes all directors, assistants and teachers of Mahabad secondary schools. According to the latest statistics, statistical population is 370 people. Firstly, 221 people were selected as sample through calculating sample size, using Cochran equation and multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tool was a questionnaire in order to collect data and its validity and reliability was confirmed before its implementation. Finally, data were analyzed in descriptive and hypothesis test sections. The research findings showed that fitting goodness indicators of model are well fitted and there is significant relationship between cultural intelligence of school directors and school organizational culture. Also, the results showed that there is positive and significant relationship between cultural intelligence dimensions including metacognitive (R = 0.46), cognitive (R = 0.24), motivational (R = 0.16) and behavioral (R = 0.18) dimensions and school culture.