Kis Andrea, Tur Elena M, Vaesen Krist, Houkes Wybo, Lakens Daniël
Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2025 Mar 25;20(3):e0318086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318086. eCollection 2025.
We draw on value theory in social psychology to conceptualize the range of motives that can influence researchers' attitudes, decisions, and actions. To conceptualize academic research values, we integrate theoretical insights from the literature on personal, work, and scientific work values, as well as the outcome of interviews and a survey among 255 participants about values relating to academic research. Finally, we propose a total of 246 academic research value items spread over 11 dimensions and 34 sub-themes. We relate our conceptualization and proposed items to existing work and provide recommendations for future scale development. Gaining a better understanding of researchers' different values can improve careers in science, attract a more diverse range of people to enter science, and elucidate some of the mechanisms that lead to both exemplary and questionable scientific practices.
我们借鉴社会心理学中的价值理论，来界定可能影响研究人员态度、决策和行动的动机范围。为了界定学术研究价值，我们整合了来自个人、工作和科学工作价值观文献的理论见解，以及对255名参与者进行的关于学术研究相关价值观的访谈和调查结果。最后，我们提出了总共246个学术研究价值项目，分布在11个维度和34个子主题中。我们将我们的概念界定和提出的项目与现有工作联系起来，并为未来量表的开发提供建议。更好地理解研究人员的不同价值观可以改善科学领域的职业发展，吸引更多不同类型的人进入科学领域，并阐明一些导致堪称典范和存在问题的科学实践的机制。
