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International Creative Tension Study of University Students in South Korea and Finland

Yoon Chang, Tomas Eklund, Jussi Kantola, Hannu Vanharanta, International Creative Tension Study of University Students in South Korea and Finland. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries 19(6), 528–543, 2009.

Abstract:

The goal of this research was to compare the creative tension of university students in South Korea and in Finland at three different universities. The creative tension, the gap between personal vision and current reality, was analysed according to relevant competencies in a project manager’s work role. The students acted as project managers in their role of finishing all the requirements for the degree. The application used for collecting and analysing data was a project managers’ work role-based competence application, Cycloid, a model in the generic Evolute system supporting fuzzy logic applications. Data for 108 university students were collected online through self-evaluation. The application was able to identify the students’ creative tension in each group. According to the results, there are major differences in the creative tension of university students between the universities (also between countries). This type of in-depth analysis of cultural perceptions of objects seems to bring valuable new information for academia and business to assess and improve multi-cultural understanding and co-operation on mutual interests and issues.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jChEkKaVa09a,
  title = {International Creative Tension Study of University Students in South Korea and Finland},
  author = {Chang, Yoon and Eklund, Tomas and Kantola, Jussi and Vanharanta, Hannu},
  journal = {Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries},
  volume = {19},
  number = {6},
  pages = {528–543},
  year = {2009},
  keywords = {Competence, Cycloid, Evolute, Creative tension, Self-evaluation, Multi-cultural},
}

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