Thesis (B.Psy.Sc.(Hons.)) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1986. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

Cette thèse est organisée en trois chapitres. Chaque chapitre inclut un article sur le thème de l'identification relationnelle. Le premier document propose un modèle conceptuel . Dans ce modèle, les antécédents (motifs d'identification ) et les modérateurs (caractéristiques interpersonnelles et cibles) prédisent conjointement les deux formes d'identification relationnelle : particularisée et généralisée. Les deux formes prévoient deux types de conséquences interpersonnelles. Le deuxième chapitre examine l'existence et les facteurs prédictifs des deux formes d'identification relationnelle. Il utilise une approche multi- méthode et des échantillons de professionnels et de gestionnaires. Le troisième chapitre examine les prédicateurs et les conséquences de l'identification relationnelle avec un autre membre de l'équipe dans un cadre des équipes d'étudiants. En résumé, le premier chapitre présente un modèle complet des deux formes d'identification relationnelle et ses antécédents et les conséquences. Le deuxième chapitre 2 se concentre principalement sur les deux formes et leurs antécédents et les modérateurs tandis que le chapitre 3 teste le modèle complet y compris les antécédents et les conséquences, mais seulement pour le but d'identification relationnelle particularisé. / This dissertation is organized in three chapters. Each chapter contains a paper around the topic of relational identification. The first paper suggests and discusses a conceptual model in which identification motives -as antecedents- and interpersonal and target characteristics -as moderators- jointly predict the two forms of relational identification: particularized and generalized. The two forms then result in different types of interpersonal outcomes. The second paper consists of two studies that examine the existence and predictors of the two forms of relational identification through a multi-method approach. Study 1 is a qualitative study based on interview data collected from a sample of international professionals and study 2 is quantitative based on survey data collected mainly from French professionals and managers. The third paper explores the predictors and outcomes of relational identification with one’s team member in the context of students’ teams through collecting survey data at three different points of time. In sum, paper 1, presents a comprehensive model of the two forms of relational identification and its antecedents and outcomes. Paper 2 mainly focuses on the front end of the model exploring the two forms and their antecedents and moderators whereas paper 3 tests the whole model including the antecedents and outcomes but only for particularized relational identification.

M.A. / This qualitative study aimed to research three parent’s experience of a filial therapy programme. An exploratory - descriptive research design was utilised. Case studies were utilised, whereby three parent’s were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule of open-ended questions. The interview schedule was verbally administered and was recorded by means of an audio tape-recorder. As a method of verification, a literature control was done to verify the trustworthiness and relevance of the findings. From this, guidelines based on the themes formulated, were discussed, recommendations given based on the guidelines for practice, and further implementation of the filial therapy programme. Carrying out this research was an enlightening experience for the researcher. The respondents, in this study, found the filial therapy programme to be effective in helping them gain a greater understanding of their children and the problems they may be experiencing. The programme outlined for them the importance of their active participation within the therapeutic process. By becoming more involved in the therapeutic process, through the filial therapy programme, parents were able to foster better parent-child relationships. The researcher is of the opinion that the overall purpose of this study was achieved through implementing this programme. The research findings give the researcher and social workers, in the field of family therapy, a clear understanding of the effectiveness of filial therapy as a method of helping families. The researcher urges all social workers to become aware of and equipped with the skills to carry out filial therapy in practice, as a trustworthy method of helping families. / Dr. E. Oliphant

Today most organizations define job responsibilities less clearly than they did in the past. Additionally, increasing emphasis on personal initiative, empowerment, and self-management places a higher burden on workers to control their own activities. As such, decisions about whether to perform discretionary helping tasks, such as requested favors, is an important issue that faces all working professionals as they try to balance the many divergent demands on their time. This dissertation focuses on how individuals make decisions regarding whether to agree to favor requests, defined as “discretionary, prosocial behavior that is performed in response to a specific, explicit request from one person to another,” in the workplace. I show favors—because they are externally requested—are phenomenologically distinct from in-role behaviors and voluntary helping behaviors. I examine favor requests from the perspective of the performer to identify the motivations that influence responses to favor requests. I consider how favor decision-making—both the factors that people consider as well as the decision outcome— changes across individuals and situations. The dissertation contains three papers that contribute to this goal. Paper 1 defines favors and favor requests, distinguishes them from other workplace helping behaviors, and proposes a framework of the motivational processes of favor request decisions. Paper 2 provides an empirical test of the motivational framework proposed in Paper 1. Paper 3 examines the relationship among helping context, comparing favors versus volunteerism, gender, and guilt proneness. Overall, this stream of research is intended to develop an understanding of how people behave when confronted with favor requests.

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The practicum consists of a study of methods of identifying and working with natural caregivers, based on previous descriptions in the literature of natural caregivers and their networks, presented in handbook format, and addressed to social service delivery people. Most of the natural helping literature describes natural helpers and natural helping networks, Little is available about the worker - helper relationship itself, about how to find natural helpers, and about how to develop and maintain relationships with them. It is this relationship between the worker and the natural helper that we studied and about which we have written.

Forskning inom altruism och egoism är omfattande, båda sidorna hävdar att det finns bevis för deras sak. Syftet med undersökningen var att förstå motivationsfaktorer gällande hjälpande, samt en inblick angående relationer och typen av hjälpande. Deltagarna bestod av 85 studenter, åldrarna 19–50, 65 var kvinnor. Databearbetning var inspirerad av empirisk metodik, varje berättelse meningskoncentrerades. Främlingar var typen av relation som mest blev hjälpt. Vardaglig fysisk hjälp var den vanligaste typen av hjälpande. Egoistiska motiv som låg på 40% visade sig vara mer dominerande än altruistiska motiv som låg på 20%, resterande 40% var neutrala. Andelen av de 40% berodde på att egoistiska motivationsfaktorer förklarades som känsla av skyldighet att hjälpa, känna sig behövd och en känsla av att må bra. Altruistiska motivationsfaktorer förklarades som instinkt och empatiska tankebanor. Studien tyder på att egoistiska och altruistiska motivationsfaktorer existerar, dock krävs mer forskning inom dessa ämnen

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