PRODUCING POSITIVE INTERACTION AMONG DOWN SYNDROME AND NON-HANDICAPPED TEENAGERS THROUGH COOPERATIVE GOAL STRUCTURING
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 85 (3) , 268-273
Abstract
Effects of cooperative, competitive and individualistic goal structures were compared on the dimensions of interpersonal interaction and attraction. Subjects were nonhandicapped and Down''s syndrome junior high school students who participated in 8 weekly sessions of recreational bowling. Significantly more positive interactions and evidence of greater interpersonal attraction took place between the nonhandicapped students and the Down syndrome students in the cooperative condition than in the competitive and individualistic conditions.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Factorial Study of Sighted People's Attitudes toward BlindnessThe Journal of Social Psychology, 1964
- A Theory of Co-operation and CompetitionHuman Relations, 1949