The Role of Altruistic Values in Motivating Underrepresented Minority Students for Biomedicine.
The Role of Altruistic Values in Motivating Underrepresented Minority Students for Biomedicine.
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DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biu199
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发表时间：
2015-02-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Smith JL
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作者：
Thoman DB;Brown ER;Mason AZ;Harmsen AG;Smith JL
了解文化价值观如何影响本科生的科学研究经历和职业兴趣，对于努力扩大参与和使生物医学研究队伍多样化非常重要。我们前瞻性纵向研究的结果表明，看到进行生物医学研究的利他价值的代表不足的少数族裔学生(URM)研究助理随着时间的推移更多地在心理上参与他们的研究，这反过来又增强了他们追求科学研究事业的兴趣。这些利他动机对URM学生具有独特的影响，并似乎在影响他们对科学研究事业的兴趣方面发挥了重要作用。此外，看到研究如何潜在地影响社会和帮助一个人的社区，并不能取代对所有学生都很重要的科学发现的典型动机(例如，激情、好奇心、成就)。这些发现为教育工作者、培训主任和教师导师提供了简单的策略，以提高大学本科生在生物医学和相关科学领域的留存率。
Understanding how cultural values influence undergraduate students’ science research experiences and career interest is important in efforts to broaden participation and to diversify the biomedical research workforce. The results from our prospective longitudinal study demonstrated that underrepresented minority student (URM) research assistants who see the altruistic value of conducting biomedical research feel more psychologically involved with their research over time, which, in turn, enhances their interest in pursuing a scientific research career. These altruistic motives are uniquely influential to URM students and appear to play an important role in influencing their interest in scientific research careers. Furthermore, seeing how research can potentially affect society and help one's community does not replace typical motives for scientific discovery (e.g., passion, curiosity, achievement), which are important for all students. These findings point to simple strategies for educators, training directors, and faculty mentors to improve retention among undergraduate URM students in biomedicine and the related sciences.