Design and Analysis Issues in Group Research

如果我们要在小群体领域进行研究， 了解教室，治疗小组，家庭，委员会， 和友谊团体的运作以及这些团体如何成为 更有效率。 目前的大部分群体研究都使用 为研究个体发展的理论和模型 行为 这种个人的关注，部分是由于目前的 现有统计工具的局限性。 常用 分析方法要么忽视，要么把这一事实当作麻烦， 人与人之间相互影响。 五个不同 提出了调查领域。 首先，模型将 开发和测试，以解释的过程中， 同一个群体彼此之间的相似性比 不同的群体。 第二，确定方法， 当一个人离开一个群体时，他或她的行为会发生变化， 另一个将被开发。 第三，我们将模拟 一个群体的规范改变的程度，当一个成员 离开群组，并且新人进入群组。 第四、 研究家庭成员如何看待彼此的方法将是 探讨了 第五，衡量在多大程度上 竞争群体会发展出对抗性的规范。 对于每个领域，数据收集和统计程序 分析以及计算机软件将被开发。 为 每个领域的数据将进行分析，以说明新的分析 法 在完成这项研究后，将有一套 可用于衡量过程的工具， 成员创造规范，以及这些规范在多大程度上 影响集团成员。 该技术可应用于 社会心理学，组织行为学，家庭研究， 社会学和教育心理学。

Research in the area of small groups is important if we are to understand how classrooms, therapy groups, families, committees, and friendship groups operate and how these groups can become more productive. Much of the current group research uses theories and models developed for the study of individual behavior. This individual focus is, in part, due to the current limitation in the available statistical tools. Commonly used analytic methods either ignore or treat as a nuisance the fact that persons interact and influence one another. Five different areas of investigation are proposed. First, models will be developed and tested to explain the process by which members of the same group become more similar to one another than members of different groups. Second, methods to determine the ways in which a person's behavior changes when he or she leaves one group and enters another will be developed. Third, we will model the extent to which the norms of a group change when the one member leaves the group and a new person enters the group. Fourth, methods to study how family members perceive one another will be explored. Fifth, methods to measure the extent to which competing groups develop antagonistic norms will be developed. For each area, procedures for data collection and statistical analysis as well as computer software will be developed. For each area, data will be analyzed to illustrate the new analytic method. Upon completion of this research, there will be a set of tools that can be used to measure the process by which group members create norms and the extent to which these norms influence the group members. The techniques can be applied in social psychology, organizational behavior, family studies, sociology and educational psychology.