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Does FIRO‐B relate better to interpersonal or intrapersonal behavior?
Author(s) -
Hurley John R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199007)46:4<454::aid-jclp2270460413>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - intrapersonal communication , psychology , affection , interpersonal communication , interpersonal relationship , developmental psychology , social psychology , clinical psychology
After meeting for 33 hours over 7 weeks, 64 undergraduates from 11 small interpersonal skills groups rated themselves on Schutz's (1958) Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientations‐Behavior (FIRO‐B). Three weeks and 17 more group interaction hours later, they also described each samegroup participant, including self, on Lorr and McNair's (1963) Interpersonal Behavior Inventory (IBI). Correlations between self‐ratings on 6 FIRO‐B and 15 IBI scales yielded 25 significant statistically ( p <.05) values, but merely 5 among FIRO‐B's 90 parallel correlations with individual's mean IBI ratings from pooled small group peers. Of all 30 significant correlations, 19 linked FIRO‐B's overlapping affection and inclusion measures positively, but narrowly, with 4 IBI scales that address affiliativeness/sociability. The findings challenge Schutz's (1958) paradoxical claim that FIRO‐B validly assesses interpersonal behavior by an intrapersonal method.