Personligheter i tverrfaglie team: En kvantitativ studie om samarbeid i tverrfaglie team

Interdisciplinary teamwork is acknowledged today as necessary due to the increasingly complex demands of modern society. Knowledge of group dynamics and characteristics of team members can make interdisciplinary cooperation more effective and meaningful. In this study we have in part 1a sought to find answers to group members' assessment of factors involved in team collaboration. We have continued in Part 1b to examine how personality traits impact the assessment of teamwork and how they influence the participants' assessment of the group. 607 students from the subject Experts in Team in the intensive villages filled out self-reports in a questionnaire. The response rate was 93.7 % and the participants answered the same questionnaire in week 1 and week 2 of the course. The data for the study consisted of three parts. The first was the background variables such as gender, age, nationality and faculty. The second part consisted of 18 questions about collaboration that formed the basis of a factor analysis in which the three factors of team collaboration were validated. These were "kindness," "lack of focus" and "isolation and domination." In addition, during the first questionnaire in week 1, participants also filled out the well-known personality test NEO FFI, containing personality traits neuroticism, extroversion, openness, compassion and conscientiousness. Paired t - tests were performed for the three co- factors to test averages compared to development in 1a. The results show that the factor "kindness" dropped from week 1 to 2 , while the factor "isolation and domination" rose from week 1 to week 2. A multilevel analysis was used to answer 1b. Results from 1b show three personality traits that prevail in relation to our partner factors. Personality features of openness and conscientiousness prevailed in each factor, respectively "kindness" and "lack of focus." Humanity prevailed in all three co-factors. Group participation was meaningful in how participants assessed "kindness" (25 %), "lack of focus" (36 %) and "isolation and domination" (38 %). The discussion also examines 1a and 1b in view of each other. It is argued here that interdisciplinary teamwork should also take into account individual personality characteristics. The conclusion implies the importance of valuing diversity in group members’ personality characteristics that they bring into cooperation. It is the interaction between the individual personality characteristics that may encourage the development of students' collaboration skills