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Self-Actualizing: Myth or Reality?
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Butler, Robert R. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) was used to assess the impact of a semester-long encounter-group, personal-growth experience on students seeking degrees in counseling. Both the experimental and control groups showed gains in self-actualization. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Group Experience, Individual Development
Personal Growth Outcomes Due to Human Relations Training Experiences
Hipple, John L. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1973
This study was concerned with investigating the effects of human relations laboratory experiences on the interpersonal behavior of male and female college students. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Human Relations, Human Relations Programs, Individual Development
Behavior Change Outcomes of Marathon Group Treatment
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Uhlemann, Max R.; Weigel, Richard G. – Small Group Behavior, 1977
This study evaluated behavior change occurring after a marathon group experience, with a focus on individualized rather than shared behavioral change criteria. The individualization of behavior change criteria is based on the assertion that few, if any, single change criteria are appropriate or realistic for assessing change in all individuals.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classification, College Students, Evaluation Criteria
Growth Groups and the Personal Orientation Inventory
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Ritter, Kathleen Y. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is frequently used to measure changes that have occurred in participants as a result of an encounter- or growth-group experience. The pseudo-self-actualizing tendency of counseling students is explored, and rationale is presented as to why the POI should be used with other instruments. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Group Counseling, Group Experience
Personality Changes as a Function of Group Transactional Analysis
May, Ronald J.; Tierney, Dennis E. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1976
Dormitory residents (N=16) participated in transactional analysis (TA) groups. Pre- and post-test results on the Omnibus Personality Inventory showed the experimental group having significantly decreased complexity scores (p greater than .01) and increased estheticism scores (p greater than .05) when compared with a control group. The use of TA…
Descriptors: College Students, Group Counseling, Group Experience, Higher Education
Interpersonal Growth Contracts and Leader Experience: Their Effects in Encounter Groups
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Magyar, Charles W.; Apostal, Robert A. – Small Group Behavior, 1977
The questions of the value of structure in groups and the value of experience in group leadership merge when the two areas of conflict are considered together. The present study was concerned with effects of an interpersonal growth contract and of leader experience on encounter group process and outcome. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Contracts, Group Structure, Individual Development
Students, the Environment, and Their Interaction: Part II. Colorado State University Student Development Reports, Vol. XIII, No. 2, 1975-76.
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Corazzini, John G.; Wilson, Susan E. – 1975
Environmental assessment of Colorado State University (CSU) was undertaken to identify mismatches between the needs and goals of students and the resources and goals of the University. The perceptions and attitudes of a large representative sample of CSU students were measured using the College Student Questionnaire (CSQ) and the Environmental…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Environment, College Students, Environmental Influences