EFFECTS OF N AFFILIATION, SEX, AND THE SIGHT OF OTHERS UPON INITIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN PROBLEM-SOLVING GROUPS
Abstract
The results were (a) Women's messages were significantly more person-oriented than were men's. (b) In w men's relative to men s groups S whose co-workers were visible requested significantly more personal information than did those whose co-workers were non-visible. (c) n affiliation was significantly and inversely related to the degree of control over others' behavior attempted in the first message written in the proce s of group problem-solving. There was no evidence that n affiliation per se affected the degree of person relative to taskoriented communications, nor did n affiliation combine with visibility to produce effects upon either person-relevant or control-relevant communications. It was concluded that earlier findings concerning sex effects upon personorientation are reproducible and that n affiliation effec s upon decision procedures reflected weaker expressions of control by those high in n affiliation. Results were discussed in terms of a paradigm of group task requirements proposed by Roby and Lanzetta. Methodological implications of the use of scaling procedures to reduce the effort, and increase the reliability and v lidity of message analyses were discussed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1961
- Accession Number
- AD0265998
Entities
People
- Ralph V. Exline
Organizations
- University of Delaware