Article,
Asking the How Questions: Quantifying Group Processes Behaviors
Journal of General Psychology, 134 (1): 5 - 21 (2007)
Abstract
The authors analyzed the group work behaviors of 132 grade school
students to assess behavioral manifestations of group processes. The
authors
coded videotapes of students working together on a math-learning task
to
quantify the incidence of microbehaviors associated with process loss
and
process gain (I. D. Steiner, 1972). Factor analysis of 11 categories
of coded
behaviors revealed 3 factors that accounted for 67% of the explained
variance.
The factors were interpretable as process gain (PGV), process loss
behavior
directed outside the group (PLV-out), and process loss behavior directed
into
the group (PLV-In). The authors discuss correlations among variables
derived
from the factors and with other measures. Results support this method
of
quantifying group processes. The authors considered implications for
the broader
study of group processes. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR Copyright of Journal
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