Liu Hsing-Yuan
Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Gueishan Township, No. 261, Wunhua 1St Rd, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Department of Nursing, Linkous Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
BMC Nurs. 2022 Dec 7;21(1):344. doi: 10.1186/s12912-022-01118-3.
Considerable theoretical and empirical work indicates that a multitude of factors are associated with team creativity in an organizational context. The complex relationships between the contributors, however, are not well understood in nursing education. This study was to take a process view investigating the pathways from swift trust to creativity via collaborative interactions and to explore whether task conflict would further change the strength of the indirect effect.
This study utilized a cross-sectional, quantitative, descriptive design. Taiwanese nursing students (final n = 629), who enrolled in capstone courses of small interdisciplinary groups collaborating with industrial design students on designing healthcare products, participated in the study. Data were collected from students during 2018 and 2020. Questionnaires assessed their perceptions about teams' swift trust (including cognition- and affect-based), collaborative interactions (including constructive controversy, helping behavior, and spontaneous communication), task conflict, and creativity. SPSS PROCESS macro was used to test the proposed moderated mediation model.
Bivariate correlation analysis showed that greater team creativity was associated with increased cognition-based team swift trust and collaborative interactions. Results revealed that collaborative interactions serving as the underlying mechanisms mediating the effect of cognition- and affect-based swift trust on team creativity. Moreover, the indirect effect of collaborative interactions, specifically, spontaneous communication, on linking swift trust to team creativity varied as a function of task conflict. As task conflict decreased, the effect became stronger.
Findings suggest that nursing student teams' spontaneous communication serves as the underlying mechanism in linking the relationship between swift trust and team creativity and that lower task conflict plays a crucial role in enhancing the indirect effect. The proposed pathway could provide guidance for nursing educators to promote creativity outcomes by promoting swift trust and collaborative interactions as well as preventing task conflict for interdisciplinary nursing student teams.
大量的理论和实证研究表明，在组织环境中，众多因素与团队创造力相关。然而，在护理教育中，这些因素之间的复杂关系尚未得到充分理解。本研究采用过程视角，探究从快速信任通过协作互动到创造力的路径，并探讨任务冲突是否会进一步改变这种间接效应的强度。
本研究采用横断面、定量、描述性设计。台湾护理专业学生（最终样本量n = 629）参与了本研究，他们参加了小型跨学科小组的顶点课程，与工业设计专业学生合作设计医疗产品。数据于2018年至2020年期间从学生中收集。问卷评估了他们对团队快速信任（包括基于认知和情感的信任）、协作互动（包括建设性争议、帮助行为和自发沟通）、任务冲突和创造力的看法。使用SPSS PROCESS宏来检验所提出的有调节的中介模型。
双变量相关分析表明，更高的团队创造力与基于认知的团队快速信任和协作互动的增加相关。结果显示，协作互动作为中介机制，介导了基于认知和情感的快速信任对团队创造力的影响。此外，协作互动，特别是自发沟通，在将快速信任与团队创造力联系起来的间接效应会因任务冲突而有所不同。随着任务冲突的减少，这种效应会增强。
研究结果表明，护理专业学生团队的自发沟通是连接快速信任与团队创造力关系的潜在机制，较低的任务冲突在增强这种间接效应方面起着关键作用。所提出的路径可为护理教育工作者提供指导，通过促进快速信任和协作互动以及防止跨学科护理专业学生团队的任务冲突来提高创造力成果。
