Group as a Social Microcosm: The Reciprocal Relationship Between Intersession Intimate Behaviors and In-Session Intimate Behaviors
| Autor: | Salvatore Gullo, Cecilia Giordano, Maria Di Blasi, Dennis M. Kivlighan, Francesca Giannone, Gianluca Lo Coco |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Kivlighan D.M., Gullo S., Giordano C., Di Blasi M., Giannone F., Lo Coco G. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Male Social Psychology medicine.medical_treatment Interpersonal communication PsycINFO Developmental psychology Social group Interpersonal relationship Young Adult Interpersonal groups Intimate behaviors Multilevel analysis Social microcosm Variance partitioning Interpersonal Relations Scale medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Interpersonal Relations Education Graduate Everyday life Students Communication 05 social sciences Multilevel model General Medicine 050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Interpersonal psychotherapy Psychotherapy Group Female Psychology |
| Popis: | The social microcosm is defined as group members replicating their everyday (intersession) interpersonal behaviors in group sessions and new behaviors, learned in the group (in-session), replicating in the members' everyday life. We examined intersession and in-session intimate behaviors, at the within-member (differences in intimate behaviors between weeks/sessions), between-member (average differences in intimate behaviors between group members) and between-groups (group-level differences in intimate behaviors). Participants were 178 graduate students (86% identifying as women and 14% as men) participating in 10 5-session growth groups led by experienced group therapists. Before group sessions, group members completed the Interpersonal Relations Scale Checklist (IRScl; Shadish, 1984) indicating their number of intersession intimate behaviors for the previous week and, at the end of group sessions, they filled in the IRScl to indicate their in-session intimate behaviors. A 3-level HLM analysis (sessions, members, groups) predicting in-session intimate behaviors from previous week intersession intimate behaviors showed significant within-member, between-member, and between-groups effects. A second 3-level HLM analysis (sessions, members, groups), predicting following week intersession intimate behaviors from in-session intimate behaviors, showed significant between-member and between-groups effects. Between-member and within-member in-session intimate behaviors interacted to predict intersession intimate behaviors. Group members who generally had a low number of in-session intimate behaviors engaged in more intersession intimate behaviors in weeks following sessions with higher than average in-session intimate behaviors. These results provide support for the social microcosm proposition that members' trait-like everyday behaviors are replayed in the group. However state-like and other-member everyday behaviors also contribute to members' social microcosm. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved). |
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