Karadag Engin, Ciftci S Koza
Akdeniz University, Faculty of Education, Campus, 07070, Antalya Turkey.
Heliyon. 2023 Jul 27;9(8):e18762. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18762. eCollection 2023 Aug.
In the past decades, the awareness about the concept of research productivity at higher education institutions has improved which led to an increase in the number of studies dealing with the subject. Such studies mostly deal with correlations between research productivity and organizational elements, gender, age, professional experience, and alma mater characteristics. To provide an innovative dimension to the existing studies this study focuses on the interaction between the research productivity of the scientists and their childhood period and childhood setting. In this context, the aim of our study is to examine the effects of cultural, economic, and social capitals on research productivity of both scientists' current status and their parents' during their childhood. The data were collected from 9499 faculty members through a survey questionnaire which included items on cultural, economic, and social capital. The data on research productivity of the participants were taken from the Web of Science. The major findings of the study are as follows: (a) Turkish scientists both have lower levels of parents' level of-during childhood- and their current level of cultural capital, and they mostly come from families with the lower-middle economic level; (b) they have medium level social capital; (c) cultural and social capitals together can account for 69% of research productivity, and the order of the related items are found to be childhood objectified cultural capital, current embodied cultural capital and parents' embodied cultural capital during childhood; (d) among social capital structures, relational social capital is the strongest predictor of research productivity and (e) economic capital is not a significant predictor of research productivity. We believe that our current findings contribute to the studies on higher education research by uncovering the new relationships between structures.
在过去几十年里，高等教育机构对研究生产力概念的认识有所提高，这导致了处理该主题的研究数量增加。此类研究大多涉及研究生产力与组织要素、性别、年龄、专业经验和母校特征之间的相关性。为了给现有研究提供一个创新维度，本研究聚焦于科学家的研究生产力与其童年时期和童年环境之间的相互作用。在此背景下，我们研究的目的是考察文化、经济和社会资本对科学家当前状态以及其父母童年时期研究生产力的影响。数据通过一份调查问卷从9499名教职员工中收集，该问卷包括关于文化、经济和社会资本的项目。参与者的研究生产力数据取自《科学引文索引》。该研究的主要发现如下：(a) 土耳其科学家在童年时期父母的文化资本水平和他们当前的文化资本水平都较低，并且他们大多来自中下经济水平的家庭；(b) 他们拥有中等水平的社会资本；(c) 文化和社会资本共同能够解释69%的研究生产力，相关项目的顺序为童年客观化文化资本、当前具体化文化资本和童年时期父母的具体化文化资本；(d) 在社会资本结构中，关系型社会资本是研究生产力最强的预测因素；(e) 经济资本不是研究生产力的显著预测因素。我们相信我们当前的发现通过揭示结构之间的新关系，为高等教育研究做出了贡献。
