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Outcomes Associated with Direct and Vicarious Experience in Training Groups: I. Personality Changes
Author(s) -
McLEISH JOHN,
PARK JAMES
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1972.tb00823.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , group (periodic table) , clinical psychology , social psychology , organic chemistry , chemistry
Ninety‐eight subjects were randomly assigned to one of six group treatments: (i) a self‐analytic group, (ii) a direct communications group, (iii) a Bales training group observing a self‐analytic group, (iv) a clinical (non‐trained) group observing a direct self‐analytic group, (v) a Bales training group observing a direct communications group, (vi) a clinical (non‐trained) group observing a direct communications group. Each treatment was replicated. Fifteen hours of laboratory training were associated with course readings and various assignments. All the subjects were pretested with a number of tests covering the areas which might possibly be affected by the treatments: personality, attitudes, understanding of group process, empathic response, etc. They were retested immediately the training ended. This paper reports the fact that the null hypothesis was not falsified with regard to personality: the changes observed were quite small and none of the treatments altered any of the 16 personality factors (Cattell) to any significant degree.