Analysis of Imagination Constructs with Engineering Students

工程領域學生的想像力構念分析

10.6144/JIC.2015.0601.03

許育齡(Yuling Hsu)；許盛貴(Sheng-Kuei Hsu)

資訊與電機工程領域 ； 工程教育 ； 想像力 ； 人格特質 ； 自我效能 ； 社會氣氛 ； Computer and electrical engineering ； Engineering education ； Imaginative capacity ； Personality traits ； Self-efficacy ； Social climate

資訊傳播研究

6卷1期（2015 / 10 / 01）

53 - 69

英文

本研究探討社會氣氛、自我效能，以及人格特質對工程領域學生想像力的預測效果，同時考驗人格特質透過社會氣氛與自我效能為中介的模型，其預測想像力的適配度。本次研究邀集了465位主修資訊與電機工程的大學生參與。結果顯示，開放特質對三種想像力均具有相當高的預測力，並能透過社會氣氛及自我效能為中介間接預測想像力；親和特質亦透過中介路徑間接預測想像力；審慎特質能直接預測構思想像，並透過自我效能為中介間接預測轉造想像；神經質特質可透過社會氣氛間接預測轉造想像；外向特質則可直接預測創始想像。本研究進一步釐清，如何運用人格特質以及透過社會氣氛及自我效能為中介，整合預測資電工程領域學生的想像力。

This study analyzes the effects of personality traits, social climate, and self-efficacy on the imagination of engineering majors, and tests the mediating effects of personality traits on student imagination through social climate and self-efficacy. A total of 465 undergraduates, enrolled in computer and electrical engineering programs, participated in the study. The results showed that openness exerts strong effects on student imagination, and indirectly predicts imagination through social climate and self-efficacy. Agreeableness also exerts indirect effects on student imagination through the same mediators. Conscientiousness directly predicts conceiving imagination and indirectly predicts student imagination through self-efficacy. Neuroticism only predicts transforming imagination through social climate. Extraversion only exerts an effect on initiating imagination. This study contributes to the structural view on how personality traits predict the imagination of engineering majors through social climate and self-efficacy.

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