Self-acceptance, acceptance of others, and symlog: Equivalent measures of the two central interpersonal dimensions?
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- psychotherapeutic processes
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 47 (4) , 576-582
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(199107)47:4<576::aid-jclp2270470417>3.0.co;2-r
Abstract
After 50 hours of small group participation during 9 weeks, 91 young adults rated each same‐group member's conduct on SYMLOG's dimensions of dominance, friendliness, and task‐orientedness. Earlier, they made similar ratings twice, several weeks apart, on separate measures of self‐acceptance and acceptance of others. Individuals' mean SYMLOG dominance ratings by group peers correlated much more highly with aggregated ratings for self‐acceptance (.83) than for other‐acceptance (.02), while SYMLOG friendliness correlated more positively with acceptance of others (.85) than with self‐acceptance (.05). Self‐ratings yielded parallel, but weaker associations. After attenuation corrections, these divergent approaches to assessing the interpersonal domain's central dimensions yielded empirically equivalent results. Both methods provide measures relevant to small group processes.Keywords
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