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dc.creatorHair, Elizabeth Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07T22:44:49Z
dc.date.available2012-06-07T22:44:49Z
dc.date.created1996
dc.date.issued1996
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-H356
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dc.description.abstractThis research is concerned with the interrelations between individual characteristics and "group climate". I probed the hypothesis that individual differences in agreeableness would be an indicator of competitive behavior across goal structures. I also hypothesized that individual differences in agreeableness would be related to self-perception of competitiveness and perception of their partners' competitiveness. Exploratory analyses were performed to probe how triad composition interacts with goal structure. Individuals were grouped in same sex triads by level of dispositional agreeableness (43 female triads-, 47 male triads) The triads performed a group interaction task that either elicited cooperative or competitive behavior. The individual subjects then rated themselves and their partners on perceived competitiveness. Results were found to support the hypothesis that agreeableness is related to self-and other ratings of competitiveness. Subjects rated themselves the most competitive in the contrient goal structure. Results were discussed in terms of the relationship of competitiveness to personality and group interaction.en
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.rightsThis thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use.en
dc.subjectpsychology.en
dc.subjectMajor psychology.en
dc.titlePersonality and group interactionen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinepsychologyen
thesis.degree.nameM.S.en
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
dc.type.genrethesisen
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