Under Psychological Safety Climate: The Beneficial Effects of Teacher–Student Conflict

Ruoying Xie, Jinzhang Jiang, Linkai Yue, Lin Ye, Dong An and Yin Liu
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Ruoying Xie: School of Media & Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Jinzhang Jiang: USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Linkai Yue: School of Media & Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Lin Ye: School of Media & Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Dong An: School of Art, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Yin Liu: School of Media & Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 15, 1-11

Abstract: Previous studies have mainly focused on the negative effects of teacher–student conflict; the positive effects of conflict have rarely been mentioned. This paper suggests that encouraging conflict could act as a teaching method to improve students’ innovative competence. This study has two objectives: (1) to examine how various types of teacher–student conflict affects students’ innovative competence and (2) to identify the mediating role of a psychological safety climate in the association between conflict and students’ innovative competence. To achieve the objectives, we used evidence from 1207 university students. Multivariable logistic regression analysis revealed that conflicts were associated with students’ innovative competence, and the mediation role of a psychological safety climate is significant. Specifically, the results revealed that Cognitive Conflict had significant positive effects on students’ innovative competence, whereas Affective Conflict had a significant negative effect on students’ innovative competence. In addition, we clarified a psychological safety climate as the boundary condition for the relationship between conflict and students’ innovative competence.

Keywords: teacher–student relationship; cognitive conflict; affective conflict; students’ innovative competence; psychological safety climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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