The Role of Altruistic Values in Motivating Underrepresented Minority Students for Biomedicine.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how cultural values influence undergraduate students' science research experiences and career interest is important in efforts to broaden participation and to diversify the biomedical research workforce. The results from our prospective longitudinal study demonstrated that underrepresented minority student (URM) research assistants who see the altruistic value of conducting biomedical research feel more psychologically involved with their research over time, which, in turn, enhances their interest in pursuing a scientific research career. These altruistic motives are uniquely influential to URM students and appear to play an important role in influencing their interest in scientific research careers. Furthermore, seeing how research can potentially affect society and help one

SUBMITTER: Thoman DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4731875 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature