Science Research Management

Science Research Management ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9): 169-176.

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Research Experience, Error Management Climate and the Enhancement of Research Creativity

Yin Kui1, Xu Yuan2, Song Haojie2, Xing Lu2   

  1. 1. Donlinks School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;
    2. School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  • Received:2015-09-11 Revised:2017-10-23 Online:2018-09-20 Published:2018-11-06

Abstract: Improving the research creativity of graduate students is one of the core targets of graduate education system reform. Prior researches exploring the influencing factors of research creativity of graduate students mainly focused on individual traits and mentor but neglected the roles of individual experience and team climate. Drawing on social cognitive theory, this paper aims to explore whether and how individual research experience and error management climate of “Shimen” affect research creativity. Data is collected form four provinces and municipalities including Shandong, Beijing, Tianjing, Shanghai and respondents are 311 full-time graduate students of 61 “Shimen”. Results indicate that research experience(RE) positively affects research self-efficacy(RSE) and research creativity(RC); research self-efficacy has positive effect on research creativity and partially mediates the relationship between RE and RC; error management climate of “Shimen”(EMC) positively affects RSE,RE, and RSE completely mediates EMC-RC.

Key words:  research experience, error management climate, research self-efficacy, research creativity