Team climate mediates the effect of diversity on environmental science team satisfaction and data sharing.

ABSTRACT: Scientific research-especially high-impact research-is increasingly being performed in teams that are interdisciplinary and demographically diverse. Nevertheless, very little research has investigated how the climate on these diverse science teams affects data sharing or the experiences of their members. To address these gaps, we conducted a quantitative study of 266 scientists from 105 NSF-funded interdisciplinary environmental science teams. We examined how team climate mediates the associations between team diversity and three outcomes: satisfaction with the team, satisfaction with authorship practices, and perceptions of the frequency of data sharing. Using path analyses, we found that individuals from underrepresented groups perceived team climate more negatively, which was associated

SUBMITTER: Settles IH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638994 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature