Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative Behaviors
Despite the growing recognition of the value of interdisciplinary learning in doctoral education, there is still a gap in the literature supporting the relationship between it and doctoral students’ scientific creativity in China. Based on a questionnaire survey of 457 doctoral students from the hum...
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| description | Despite the growing recognition of the value of interdisciplinary learning in doctoral education, there is still a gap in the literature supporting the relationship between it and doctoral students’ scientific creativity in China. Based on a questionnaire survey of 457 doctoral students from the humanities and social sciences on the Chinese Mainland, this study adopted structural equation modeling to examine the relationships among interdisciplinary learning, teamwork skills, collaborative behaviors, and scientific creativity. The results indicated that there was a weak positive correlation between interdisciplinary learning and the scientific creativity of doctoral students. Teamwork skills mediated the relationship between interdisciplinary learning and creativity, while the mediating effect of collaborative behaviors did not hold. Moreover, the relationship between interdisciplinary learning and creativity can also be mediated by the sequential mediation of teamwork skills and collaborative behaviors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-923e5ef4759940d783ca57e8e53df82c2025-08-20T01:53:49ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2024-11-011411104610.3390/bs14111046Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative BehaviorsShuzhen Chen0Lichao Ma1Yinqi Ma2Department of Educational Administration and Policy, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaInstitute of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaCollege of Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, ChinaDespite the growing recognition of the value of interdisciplinary learning in doctoral education, there is still a gap in the literature supporting the relationship between it and doctoral students’ scientific creativity in China. Based on a questionnaire survey of 457 doctoral students from the humanities and social sciences on the Chinese Mainland, this study adopted structural equation modeling to examine the relationships among interdisciplinary learning, teamwork skills, collaborative behaviors, and scientific creativity. The results indicated that there was a weak positive correlation between interdisciplinary learning and the scientific creativity of doctoral students. Teamwork skills mediated the relationship between interdisciplinary learning and creativity, while the mediating effect of collaborative behaviors did not hold. Moreover, the relationship between interdisciplinary learning and creativity can also be mediated by the sequential mediation of teamwork skills and collaborative behaviors.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/14/11/1046interdisciplinary learningteamwork skillscollaborative behaviorsscientific creativitydoctoral students |
| spellingShingle | Shuzhen Chen Lichao Ma Yinqi Ma Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative Behaviors Behavioral Sciences interdisciplinary learning teamwork skills collaborative behaviors scientific creativity doctoral students |
| title | Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative Behaviors |
| title_full | Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative Behaviors |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative Behaviors |
| title_short | Chinese Doctoral Students Involved in Interdisciplinary Learning Score Higher on Scientific Creativity: The Roles of Teamwork Skills and Collaborative Behaviors |
| title_sort | chinese doctoral students involved in interdisciplinary learning score higher on scientific creativity the roles of teamwork skills and collaborative behaviors |
| topic | interdisciplinary learning teamwork skills collaborative behaviors scientific creativity doctoral students |
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