A Comparison of Two Training Formats for Persons With Varying Interpersonal Needs
Smallegan, Marian; Smallegan, Marian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Журнал:
Adult Education Quarterly
Дата:
1971
Аннотация:
A Group and Interpersonal Relations Seminar using two training formats was investigated for opinion change in democratic lead ership. The two training formats differed in their residential nature: one format had weekly, non-residential meetings for one semester; the other had approximately the same number of meet ing hours with a residential weekend for part of the seminar. Each participant responded to a pre-, post-test for opinion about democratic leadership and to FIRO-B, a questionnaire used to determine interpersonal need scores.Analysis of the data gave little support to the hypotheses of the study, which were based on the assumption that opinion change would be greatest in situations where needs were most easily met. The data did indicate a positive opinion change over a period of time after the course was completed, little difference in opin ion change for high scorers on FIRO-B regardless of the residential nature of the course, a positive opinion change for low scorers on FIRO-B who were in the partial residential sections, and a negative opinion change for low scorers on FIRO-B who were in the non- residential section.
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