Testing a Personal Construct Theory Model of the Experiential Learning Process: B. Defensive Responses to Invalidation and the Effect on the Construing Processes of Participants in Sensitivity Training Groups.

Beck, John E.

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ERIC Number: EJ379699

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Publication Date: 1988

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Testing a Personal Construct Theory Model of the Experiential Learning Process: B. Defensive Responses to Invalidation and the Effect on the Construing Processes of Participants in Sensitivity Training Groups.

Beck, John E.

Small Group Behavior, v19 n2 p240-58 May 1988

Formulated hypotheses about relationship between two major dimensions of defensiveness: hostility and constriction. Examined defensive and elaborative responses reported by participants in sensitivity training groups. Results showed that individuals reporting defensive responses during human relations training laboratory were experiencing some invalidation of their personal constructs. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Hostility, Learning Processes, Models, Sensitivity Training, Theories, Validity

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Singapore

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