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Differential Effects of Two T Group Styles
Author(s) -
BOLLER JON D.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1974.tb00853.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , group (periodic table) , social psychology , cognition , cognitive style , cognitive psychology , chemistry , organic chemistry , neuroscience
This article presents a rationale for examining the effects of the T group on introverts and extroverts. Two T group styles were examined—a sensory awareness group and a verbal cognitive group. Results indicate that the sensory awareness group is more profitable to both personality types and that there is a direct relationship between personality type and profit in a T group. Although introverts profited less than the extroverts, there was reason to believe that an extended group experience might have been more profitable for the introverts. Profit was measured by quantifying emotional reactions to the ongoing group process at timed sampling intervals via Homans' social exchange model. Poker chips were used as symbolic representations of positive and negative effect.