Abstract
The need for affective education, which is psychological in nature and can take place in the regular classroom, has been expressed by many authors in the fields of psychology and counseling. However, research on affective education in the regular classroom has been limited mostly to the areas of career education and drug abuse prevention. Little research has dealt with curriculum designed to enhance self-awareness, self-concept, and interpersonal communication. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the psychological concepts of TA, Structural Analysis, the Basic Life Position for most people, and Recognition Hunger described by Eric Berne in his theory of TA, would effectively serve as content for such psychological curriculum. Two possible results of TA were measured, the effect on self-concept, and the effect on the use of Adult statements. In the spring of 1975, homerooms of seventh grade students at two junior high schools in West Orange-Cove Consolidated School District were randomly selected and assigned to six experimental and six control groups. The teachers of the six experimental groups received six hours of training to teach the curriculum. The six experimental homerooms received training in TA twice each week, for three weeks. One dependent variable was the pre- to posttest change scores on the TSCS, Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. The other dependent variable was the pre- to posttest change scores on the TAESS, Transactional Analysis Ego State Scale. A one-way analysis of variance was used to determine if there were significant differences between the change scores of the experimental and control groups. The results indicated no significant results on either of the dependent variables. Significant results in the expected directions were obtained on the Rebel Child Scale and on the Nurturing Parent Scale of the Transactional Analysis Ego State Scale, demonstrating that seventh grade students chose fewer Rebel Child responses and more Nurturing Parent responses.
Copeland, Patsy Sue (1976). Affective education: effects of transactional analysis training on seventh grade students. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -183394.