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Personal-Growth Groups: Who Joins and Who Benefits?
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Epps, Jerry D.; Sikes, Walter W. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The study discussed here attempts to shed further light on the influences that differences in characteristics of personal-growth group participants have on the quality of their experiences. (Author)
Descriptors: Group Experience, Group Membership, Group Therapy, Individual Development
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
Life Styles and Conflict-Coping Structures
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Friedlander, Frank; Green, P. Toni – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The hypothesis was that structures built by group members in dealing with conflict and decision making would be contingent on their life styles. Three different sets of groups of persons with homogeneous life styles created three different (and predicted) structures in a problem-solving task. (Author)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Group Membership, Group Structure
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
Change Agent Bias: What They View Determines What They Do
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Tichy, Noel M.; Nisberg, Jay N. – Group and Organization Studies, 1976
Organization development consultants (N=75) asked to list the 10 "most important" diagnostic questions they would want answered before accepting the contract. These were seen as a function of the change agent's organizational model and predictive of the interventions these consultants would plan. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Bias, Change Agents, Consultants
Assessing Communication Competency for Intercultural Adaptation
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Ruben, Brent D. – Group and Organization Studies, 1976
One of the recurrent problems associated with interpersonal, group, organizations, and intercultural training in communication is the assessment of outcomes. An approach is suggested for the evaluation of training and selection of programs utilizing behavioral assessment of participants' communication competence. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Interaction Process Analysis
Group Rapport: Posture Sharing as a Nonverbal Indicator
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LaFrance, Marianne; Broadbent, Maida – Group and Organization Studies, 1976
Systematic observation and a questionnaire format were used to investigate the relationship between posture sharing and self-report indications of rapport in a group situation--college seminar classrooms. The greater the amount of mirroring and congruent postures evidenced by students vis-a-vis the teacher, the higher the ratings of involvement.…
Descriptors: Body Language, Classroom Environment, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)