George Kelly has stated that persons place interpretations, or constructs, on what they perceive. Past research has indicated that subjects more meaningfully apply their own personal constructs to persons and situations than constructs supplied from other sources. This study attempted to confirm previous findings. Sixty-three university students used their own personal constructs, elicited from the Role Construct Repertory Test, and supplied instrumental-expressive role constructs to interpret and rate 12 actors portraying instrumental and expressive behaviors in six videotaped scenes. The purpose of this study is to compare the meaningfulness to subjects of stereotypic terms in a sex-role inventory to the meaningfulness of the subjects' own personal constructs when interpreting typical masculine- and feminine-typed behavior.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc331915 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Zervopoulos, John Anthony |
| Contributors | Doster, Joseph A., 1943-, Johnson, Ray W., Haynes, Jack Read, Peek, Leon A. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 90 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Zervopoulos, John Anthony, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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