Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking
Designers rely on many methods and strategies to create innovative designs. However, design research often overlooks the personality and attitudinal factors influencing method utility and effectiveness. This article defines and operationalizes the construct design mindset and introduces the Design M...
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| description | Designers rely on many methods and strategies to create innovative designs. However, design research often overlooks the personality and attitudinal factors influencing method utility and effectiveness. This article defines and operationalizes the construct design mindset and introduces the Design Mindset Inventory (D-Mindset0.1), allowing us to measure and leverage statistical analyses to advance our understanding of its role in design. The inventory’s validity and reliability are evaluated by analyzing a large sample of engineering students (N = 473). Using factor analysis, we identified four underlying factors of D-Mindset0.1 related to the theoretical concepts: Conversation with the Situation, Iteration, Co-Evolution of Problem–Solution and Imagination. The latter part of the article finds statistical and theoretically meaningful relationships between design mindset and the three design-related constructs of sensation-seeking, self-efficacy and ambiguity tolerance. Ambiguity tolerance and self-efficacy emerge as positively correlated with design mindset. Sensation-seeking, which is only significantly correlated with subconstructs of D-Mindset0.1, is both negatively and positively correlated. These relationships lend validity D-Mindset0.1 and, by drawing on previously established relationships between the three personality traits and specific behaviors, facilitate further investigations of what its subconstructs capture. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dd4a503f606342809de39f89d4c50e052025-01-16T21:47:51ZengCambridge University PressDesign Science2053-47012024-01-011010.1017/dsj.2024.36Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seekingJakob Clemen Lavrsen0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-2050Claus-Christian Carbon1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3446-9347Jaap Daalhuizen2Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkDepartment of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, GermanyFaculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsDesigners rely on many methods and strategies to create innovative designs. However, design research often overlooks the personality and attitudinal factors influencing method utility and effectiveness. This article defines and operationalizes the construct design mindset and introduces the Design Mindset Inventory (D-Mindset0.1), allowing us to measure and leverage statistical analyses to advance our understanding of its role in design. The inventory’s validity and reliability are evaluated by analyzing a large sample of engineering students (N = 473). Using factor analysis, we identified four underlying factors of D-Mindset0.1 related to the theoretical concepts: Conversation with the Situation, Iteration, Co-Evolution of Problem–Solution and Imagination. The latter part of the article finds statistical and theoretically meaningful relationships between design mindset and the three design-related constructs of sensation-seeking, self-efficacy and ambiguity tolerance. Ambiguity tolerance and self-efficacy emerge as positively correlated with design mindset. Sensation-seeking, which is only significantly correlated with subconstructs of D-Mindset0.1, is both negatively and positively correlated. These relationships lend validity D-Mindset0.1 and, by drawing on previously established relationships between the three personality traits and specific behaviors, facilitate further investigations of what its subconstructs capture.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2053470124000362/type/journal_articleDesign mindsetPsychometricsPsychologyPersonality traitSelf-efficacyAmbiguity toleranceSensation-seeking |
| spellingShingle | Jakob Clemen Lavrsen Claus-Christian Carbon Jaap Daalhuizen Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking Design Science Design mindset Psychometrics Psychology Personality trait Self-efficacy Ambiguity tolerance Sensation-seeking |
| title | Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking |
| title_full | Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking |
| title_fullStr | Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking |
| title_short | Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking |
| title_sort | measuring design mindset developing the design mindset inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance self efficacy and sensation seeking |
| topic | Design mindset Psychometrics Psychology Personality trait Self-efficacy Ambiguity tolerance Sensation-seeking |
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