An instrument for assessing content themes in group interaction
- 1 November 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Speech Monographs
- Vol. 42 (4) , 291-297
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03637757509375904
Abstract
A method of classifying group interaction content themes wasdeveloped which operationalized an analytic paradigm taken from Talcott Parsons. Results of data analysis for two independent observers showed the method to be reliable. Additional analyses showed that groups studied exhibited a well defined distributional thematic structure but less articulated sequential thematic structure.Keywords
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