Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CONICET-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
PLoS One. 2024 Nov 15;19(11):e0312938. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312938. eCollection 2024.
Previous work has suggested that the problems hindering the success of interdisciplinarity could be overcome by fostering certain intellectual character strengths in scholars. However, how to assess and cultivate the specific virtues required for interdisciplinarity among researchers is still a matter of inquiry. The general objective of this paper was to develop a psychometric instrument to assess intellectual virtues that are essential for interdisciplinary inquiry among researchers. To achieve this goal, two studies were conducted. Study 1 developed a new scale and studied its correlation with other validated measures. Study 2 focused on conducting a confirmatory analysis of the structure obtained in Study 1 and investigated the relationships between the new scale and the researchers' levels of (i) experience and productivity in interdisciplinary collaboration and (ii) satisfaction regarding the results of their interdisciplinary inquiry. The EFA conducted for Study 1 identified four dimensions: (1) intellectual empathy, (2) open-mindedness and intellectual humility, (3) intellectual perseverance, and (4) curiosity. Indeed, the pools of items that were initially developed to measure intellectual humility and open-mindedness in a separate way converged into a unique factor or dimension. The confirmatory factor analysis conducted for Study 2 corroborated the four-dimensional structure observed in Study 1 via a new different sample. In addition, Studies 1 and 2 also analyzed convergent validity through the AVE and correlated the IVIRS with other scales that measure intellectual virtues (open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual humility, and perseverance) in a general epistemic context. The second study demonstrated that researchers with significant experience, productivity, and satisfaction in the context of interdisciplinary investigation also presented elevated levels of the intellectual virtues that we identified as essential for such research. Our analysis demonstrates that the IVIRS is a valid measure of the intellectual virtues needed for interdisciplinarity and paves the way for the future design of interventions to cultivate these character traits in scholars.
先前的研究表明，通过培养学者的某些智力特质，可以克服阻碍跨学科成功的问题。然而，如何评估和培养研究人员进行跨学科研究所需的特定美德，仍然是一个需要探讨的问题。本文的总体目标是开发一种心理测量工具，以评估研究人员进行跨学科研究所需的基本智力美德。为了实现这一目标，进行了两项研究。研究 1 开发了一个新的量表，并研究了它与其他已验证的量表的相关性。研究 2 则专注于对研究 1 中获得的结构进行验证性分析，并调查了新量表与研究人员在以下两个方面的关系：(i) 在跨学科合作中的经验和生产力水平，以及 (ii) 对其跨学科研究结果的满意度。研究 1 进行的 EFA 确定了四个维度：(1) 智力同理心，(2) 思想开明和智力谦逊，(3) 智力毅力，和 (4) 好奇心。事实上，最初为单独衡量智力谦逊和思想开明而开发的项目池汇聚成了一个独特的因素或维度。研究 2 进行的验证性因素分析通过一个新的不同样本，证实了研究 1 中观察到的四维度结构。此外，研究 1 和 2 还通过 AVE 分析了收敛效度，并将 IVIRS 与其他在一般认知背景下衡量智力美德（思想开明、好奇心、智力谦逊和毅力）的量表相关联。第二项研究表明，在跨学科研究背景下具有丰富经验、生产力和满意度的研究人员，也表现出我们认为对这种研究至关重要的智力美德水平较高。我们的分析表明，IVIRS 是衡量跨学科所需智力美德的有效工具，并为未来设计培养学者这些特质的干预措施铺平了道路。
