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A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THINKING STYLES (ATTITUDES) AND COLLABORATION ATTITUDES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN TAIWAN

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  • Journal of Educational and Instructional Studies in the World

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  • 2012

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A series of Research concerning thinking styles have been expanded dramatically in recent years, particularly addressing the styles and functions of positive and negative thinking. These thinking styles were concluded to be highly related to intra-personal and interpersonal relationship which significantly influences the collaborative attitudes in whole career. Research on different thinking styles was therefore highly concerned with the factors which result in positive thinking, negative thinking, and collaborative attitudes. For the crucial reasons aforementioned, this study was conducted to identify the structural mechanism of thinking styles and their factors, and even consequent influences on collaborative attitudes. The sample participating this study was 970 college students, aging from 18 to 22, registered in various Majors of university of Science and Technology in Taiwan. The collected data, from questionnaire survey methodology, were statistically analyzed using SPSS 18.0 for Windows through series of statistical strategies such as Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) for examine hypotheses. Also the study employed the Maximum Likelihood Estimation to analyze the linear relationships among the major three variables in order to further understand the functions of each variable. After the findings were tested and concluded, their implications were also further extensively investigated and interpreted, Finally, future researches were also proposed to investigate in-depth on thinking styles scale development and on the complex relationship mechanism among thinking styles, life experience, and collaborative evironment.
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