The Moderating Role of Team Conflict on Teams of Nursing Students
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Research Design, Participants, and Procedure
2.2. Instruments
2.3. Data Analysis
2.4. Data Aggregation
2.5. Ethical Approval
3. Results
3.1. Participant Characteristics
3.2. Correlations between Swift Trust, Conflict, and Creativity on Teams
3.3. Moderation Effects
4. Discussion
4.1. Limitations
4.2. Implications for Nursing Education
5. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min. | Max. | No. of Observation (N = 270) |
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Age (Year) | 21.40 | 0.93 | 19 | 27 | |
Sex | |||||
Male | 45 | ||||
Female | 225 | ||||
Team Creativity | 3.81 | 0.34 | 2.67 | 4.44 | |
Team Swift Trust | |||||
Cognition-based | 3.61 | 0.86 | 1.40 | 4.80 | |
Affect-based | 2.53 | 0.64 | 1.20 | 4.60 | |
Team Conflict | |||||
Task Conflict | 2.90 | 0.52 | 1.93 | 4.13 | |
Process Conflict | 2.63 | 0.62 | 1.33 | 4.13 | |
Relationship Conflict | 2.18 | 0.78 | 1.13 | 4.13 |
Team Creativity | Team Swift Trust | Team Conflict | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CB | AB | TC | PC | RC | ||
Team Creativity | ||||||
Team Swift Trust | ||||||
Cognition-based (CB) | 0.35 ** | |||||
Affect-based (AB) | 0.06 | 0.50 ** | ||||
Team Conflict | ||||||
Task Conflict (TC) | −0.01 | −0.59 ** | −0.33 ** | |||
Process Conflict (PC) | −0.05 | −0.50 ** | −0.12 | 0.80 ** | ||
Relationship Conflict (RC) | −0.43 ** | −0.81 * | −0.37 ** | 0.76 ** | −0.43 ** |
Variables | β | SE | 95% Confidence Interval | t | p-Value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Constant | −0.36 | 0.149 | (−0.66 to −0.06) | −2.422 | 0.019 |
Relationship conflict (centered) | −0.61 | 0.199 | (−1.01 to −0.21) | −3.055 | <0.01 |
Cognition-based swift trust (centered) | 0.02 | 0.195 | (−0.37 to 0.41) | 0.117 | 0.907 |
Relationship Conflict × Cognition-based swift trust | −0.45 | 0.124 | (−0.70 to −0.21) | −3.662 | <0.001 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleLiu, Hsing-Yuan. 2022. "The Moderating Role of Team Conflict on Teams of Nursing Students" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 7: 4152. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074152