Dynamics of Covert Role Analysis

1 August 1988

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Small Group Behavior

Vol. 19 (3) , 299-311
https://doi.org/10.1177/104649648801900301

Abstract

The proposition that covert roles within a group are assigned to individual group members based on their propensity to verbally or nonverbally express certain patterns of unwanted, disowned, and projected emotions that are experienced as threatening by other members is examined. The analysis focuses on (a) articulating a model for describing how group members' emotions are collectively projected into a single member, resulting in covert roles; (b) describing a method for analyzing covert roles; and (c) presenting researchable propositions derivable from the model of covert role analysis.

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