Song Guandong, Xiao Bin, Wang Sihui
School of Humanities and Law, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
School of Music, Soochow University, Suzhou 215031, China.
Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 27;12(10):1302. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12101302.
Conformity is a process by which a person changes his original idea and attitude in response to group pressure and chooses to be consistent with the majority. The study was undertaken to explore university teachers' scientific research conformity (SRC), the psychological process of information processing and the types of internal attribution in SRC, and the relationship between SRC incentives and types of internal attribution.
A survey of 349 teachers from seven universities was conducted. We employed the mixed-method approach; data was collected through in-depth interviews and were analyzed using AMOS.
In-depth interviews revealed that the basic principle of human organizational behavior is conformity with incentive, and conformity is a motivational behavior produced through psychological processing of social information. Factor analysis results revealed that teachers' SRC is characterized by abidance, compliance, and obedience. The internal incentives mainly affect abidance, and have a significant impact on obedience and compliance; the environmental incentives mainly affect abidance, and have a significant impact on obedience. Family and social relationship incentives mainly affect compliance, but social relationship incentives also have a significant impact on obedience. Additionally, policy incentives have a highly significant impact on obedience.
This study provides first-hand empirical data for studies pertaining to research motivation and SRC behavior of Chinese university teachers. It also provides a theoretical basis for subsequent research on conformity behavior.
从众是指个体在群体压力下改变自己原有的想法和态度，选择与多数人保持一致的过程。本研究旨在探讨高校教师的科研从众行为、信息加工的心理过程以及科研从众行为中的内部归因类型，以及科研从众行为的激励因素与内部归因类型之间的关系。
对7所大学的349名教师进行了调查。我们采用了混合研究方法；通过深度访谈收集数据，并使用AMOS进行分析。
深度访谈表明，人类组织行为的基本原则是对激励的从众，从众是通过对社会信息的心理加工产生的一种动机行为。因子分析结果显示，教师的科研从众行为具有依从、顺从和服从的特点。内部激励主要影响依从，对服从和顺从有显著影响；环境激励主要影响依从，对服从有显著影响。家庭和社会关系激励主要影响顺从，但社会关系激励对服从也有显著影响。此外，政策激励对服从有高度显著的影响。
本研究为有关中国高校教师科研动机和科研从众行为的研究提供了第一手实证数据。它也为后续从众行为研究提供了理论基础。
