Comparing university students' commitment - a multicultural case study



: Einolander J, Vanharanta H, Chang YS, Kantola J

Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

: 2016

: Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

: THEORETICAL ISSUES IN ERGONOMICS SCIENCE

: THEOR ISS ERGON SCI

: 17

: 3

: 267

: 283

: 17

: 1463-922X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1463922X.2015.1093671


The aim of this research was to evaluate and compare the creative tension of university students in three different universities in South Korea and Finland. The creative tension, or the gap between a person's feeling of current reality and target for future, was analysed according to features describing their committing factors related to their universities and studies. Data for this study were collected from 41 university students through self-evaluation using internet-based survey instrument. The application was able to identify the creative tension in each group of university students, and the results show differences in creative tension across the universities and also between countries. This type of in-depth analysis into the cultural perceptions of attributes offers valuable new information for academia and businesses.



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