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Academic research values: Conceptualization and initial steps of scale development.
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- How Do Participatory Citizenship Models Inform Co-production in Health Research? A Systematic Review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Pooled it
- Unifying work values: establishing a circular framework based on basic human values.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
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.
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