Research Information System
7th European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), ELECTR NETWORK, 20 - 23 September 2021, pp.290-301, (Full Text)
This paper summarizes a quantitative research that aimed at determining the relationship between professors' prosocial personality traits and their research output and achievements. We surveyed a representative sample of 120 professors from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (Mexico) (7% standard error, 95% confidence interval), which was stratified per area of knowledge, by considering the total number of professors in the university as a whole and per Faculty. The survey included demographic questions and 78 items that used a five-point Likert-type scale for participants to rate their personality traits, which were classified under six dimensions: a) intrinsic motivation; b) extrinsic motivation; c) self-esteem; d) empathy; e) self-regulation; and f) prosocial behaviors. A richer dataset for the surveyed professors was generated by grouping data from the survey together with data from Scopus, Dimensions, Publons, and from the institution. We present general descriptive and inferential results related to this study's aims. Drawing from such results, we conclude with a list of training areas that may help in alleviating detected needs from the perspective of information, scientific and academic literacies.