The study of diversity climates is as complicated as the study of diversity itself. Despite the call for more sophisticated and multi-dimensional approaches to the study of diversity climates, few empirical efforts have been designed to do so, as the literature remains replete with work bifurcating and labeling diversity climates as positive or negative, productive or unproductive. Results from this study provide empirical support that worldview climate is indeed multi-dimensional, comprised of three distinctive, yet overlapping dimensions: productive, unproductive, and provocative. Implications for both scholars and practitioners, as well as directions for future research are discussed.

对多样性气候的研究与对多样性本身的研究一样复杂。尽管呼吁采用更加先进和多维的方法来研究多样性气候，但很少有经验性的研究可以这样做，因为文献仍然充斥着分叉和标记多样性气候为积极或消极，生产性或非生产性的工作。这项研究的结果提供了经验支持，即世界观气候确实是多维的，包括三个独特而又重叠的维度：生产性，非生产性和挑衅性。讨论了对学者和从业者的影响，以及未来的研究方向。