Driving mechanism of innovative behavior of college students——A study of grounded theory based on Chinese college students

Exploring the driving mechanism of college students’ innovative behavior plays an important role in accelerating the current cultivation of talents in colleges and social development. Based on the results of in-depth qualitative interviews with 22 Chinese college students, this study adopts the procedural grounded coding method to summarize the pyramid model of college students’ innovative behavior in the three dimensions of innovative motivation, innovative cognition, and innovative behavior, and found that the factors driving college students’ innovative behavior are mainly autonomy and material factors, with motivational and mandatory factors supplementing them, while college students’ innovative behavior satisfy the needs for autonomy, competence, and belongingness. The results broaden the current theoretical research related to college students’ innovation and are of great practical significance in guiding the cultivation of innovative talents in colleges and universities.