The Influence Of Undergraduate Mentor Supportive Behavior On Undergraduate Creativity Tendencies

"Innovation is the soul of a nation." Facing the fact that nowadays the talentcompetition is more and more tense, to develop international talents with innovativespirit and practical ability is the fundamental task of today’s universities. Therefore,cultivating students’ innovative ability has become the core objective of universitypersonnel training. The innovative ability is a comprehensive ability, including theability that individuals use known information to produce unique, innovative, sociallyvaluable products, as well as the positive psychological state to creation. Since the1980s, China’s research on students’ innovative ability is very extensive. Someresearchers summarize the innovative ability as the sense of innovation, innovativethinking and innovative skills while the innovative thinking at the core. Today, thenature of undergraduate education is a general education, unlike the primary education,university education helps students to have a coordinated development of both themind and the intelligence through imparting knowledge, creating an academicatmosphere and training abilities. Originated in foreign universities like Oxford andCambridge of14th century, the undergraduate mentor system provides mentors for thefreshmen, the mentors guide students in different aspects like learning, researchtraining and daily life, etc. Students will not only get academic guidance, but alsoenjoy a tremendous spiritual growth. Nowadays, with the development of theinformation age, the social demanding on talents is continually increasing, and moreand more universities implement the undergraduate mentor system in various formsand contents. A large number of scholars begin to study the impact of undergraduatementor system on the growth of students, which expands the depth and breadth of thisresearch. However, very few studies pay attention to the impact of undergraduatementor system on the students’ innovative ability. This thesis, from the perspective ofthe mentor supportive behavior in undergraduate mentor system, explores the impactof mentors’ guidance on students’ creativity tendencies in mentor systemThis thesis firstly, from references reading, systemizes the status of the study on undergraduate mentor system home and abroad, clarifies the undergraduate mentorsystem concept this thesis studies. It combines the concept of leader supportivebehavior in business administration, introduces a key concept of UndergraduateMentor Supportive Behavior, from three dimensions that are the mentors’ studysupporting, mental supporting, ability supporting for students, this thesis takes aquestionnaire inquiry on the352students of School of Management and Economics inUESTC, and widely collects the description of mentor supportive behavior inundergraduate mentor system, then produces the Scale of Undergraduate MentorSupportive Behavior. Combined with the Williams Scale of Creativity Tendencies, thisstudy employs the SPSS17.0to examine the research hypothesis. This studydemonstrates: the Undergraduate Mentor Supportive Behavior has a positive influenceon students’ creativity tendencies, and this influence can be found in four aspects ofmental supporting, study supporting, information supporting and research supporting.This study, introducing the leader supportive behavior in business administrationto the education field, produces the Scale of Undergraduate Mentor SupportiveBehavior, which is an expansion of undergraduate mentor system. And the explorationof the influence of mentor system on students’ creativity tendencies is a new attempt inmethods and ideas. The research conclusions could help colleges and universities tofurther complete and develop undergraduate mentor system, which is practicallymeaningful.