ArticleScience and engineering ethics2016
Professional Decision-Making in Research (PDR): The Validity of a New Measure.
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- Professional decision-making in medicine: Development of a new measure and preliminary evidence of validity.PloS one · 2020Article
- What Explains Associations of Researchers' Nation of Origin and Scores on a Measure of Professional Decision-Making? Exploring Key Variables and Interpretation of Scores.Science and engineering ethics · 2019Article
- Recommendations for Effective Integration of Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research (E/RCR) Education into Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: A Meeting Report.CBE life sciences education · 2019Article
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- The Culture of Biosafety, Biosecurity, and Responsible Conduct in the Life Sciences: A Comprehensive Literature Review.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2019Review
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- The Professionalism and Integrity in Research Program: Description and Preliminary Outcomes.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2018Article
- Are Leadership and Management Essential for Good Research? An Interview Study of Genetic Researchers.Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE · 2016Article
- Compliance Disengagement in Research: Development and Validation of a New Measure.Science and engineering ethics · 2016Article
- Misconduct: Lessons from researcher rehab.Nature · 2016Article
- Making Professional Decisions in Research: Measurement and Key Predictors.Accountability in research · 2016Article
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Abstract
In this paper, we report on the development and validity of the Professional Decision-Making in Research (PDR) measure, a vignette-based test that examines decision-making strategies used by investigators when confronted with challenging situations in the context of empirical research. The PDR was administered online with a battery of validity measures to a group of NIH-funded researchers and research trainees who were diverse in terms of age, years of experience, types of research, and race. The PDR demonstrated adequate reliability (alpha = .84) and parallel form correlation (r = .70). As hypothesized, the PDR was significantly negatively correlated with narcissism, cynicism, moral disengagement, and compliance disengagement; it was not correlated with socially desirable responding. In regression analysis, the strongest predictors of higher PDR scores were low compliance disengagement, speaking English as a native language, conducting clinical research with human subjects, and low levels of narcissism. Given that the PDR was written at an eighth grade reading level to be suitable for use with English as a second language participants and that only one-fourth of items focused on clinical research, further research into the possible roles of culture and research ethics training across specialties is warranted. This initial validity study demonstrates the potential usefulness of the PDR as an educational outcome assessment measure and a research instrument for studies on professionalism and integrity in research.
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