The Mediating Effects of Research Self-efficacy on the relationship between Mentoring Functions and Research Productivity

• Main Authors: Juo-lin Chen, 陳若琳
• Other Authors: Chu-ya Hu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8sc6b6

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 企業管理系 === 94 === Mentoring functions have shown to have influences on protégé productivity in the work place. However, such relationship is rarely examined in the context of academic settings. This research has three purposes：(1) It investigates the influences of mentoring functions on doctoral students’ research productivity. (2) It specifies the relationship between the mentoring functions, research training environment and research productivity. (3) It investigates the whether doctoral students’ research self-efficacy mediates the above relationships. This study surveyed 193 doctoral students in Taiwan and hierarchical regression analyses were used to examine the proposed hypotheses. The findings suggest that (1) Mentoring functions are positively related to doctoral students’ research productivity,. (2) The doctoral students’ research self-efficacy is positively associated with research productivity. (3) The research training environment in Taiwan universities hasn’t reveals to influence on research productivity. (4) The doctoral students’ research self-efficacy does not mediate the above relationships. Implications of the findings on promoting research productivity are discussed.