Gridding a Grid: An Artist Reviews and Comprehends his Own Exhibition

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Patrick Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Voice

The empirical study of appreciators' psychological processes includes the examination of self-generated aesthetic schemas and meanings. If the individual voice and vision of the artist has often been missing from much of the previous literature and discussion of aesthetic response, non-empirical art critics may have promoted their own voices and positions instead by using the recondite and all but impenetrable metalanguage of criticism. As a counterexample from numerical phenomenological methodology, Kelly's psychology of personal constructs and its Repertory grid technique [1] are shown helping an artist-spectator to recover and to reflect on his own responses to one of his exhibitions. Shaw's interactive and multivariate FOCUS technique enables the grid to serve these ideographic purposes [2].

scholarly journals Identifying the Values and Preferences of Prosthetic Users: A Case Study Series Using the Repertory Grid Technique

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Schaffalitzky ◽  
Sinead NiMhurchadha ◽  
Pamela Gallagher ◽  
Susan Hofkamp ◽  
Malcolm MacLachlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Factor ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Prosthetic Devices ◽  
User Choice ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
The Individual

Purpose: The matching of prosthetic devices to the needs of the individual is a challenge for providers and patients. The aims of this study are to explore the values and preferences that prosthetic users have of their prosthetic devices; to investigate users' perceptions of alternative prosthetic options and to demonstrate a novel method for exploring the values and preferences of prosthetic users. Methods: This study describes four case studies of upper limb and lower limb high tech and conventional prosthetic users. Participants were interviewed using the repertory grid technique (RGT), a qualitative technique to explore individual values and preferences regarding specific choices and events. Results: The participants generated distinctive patterns of personal constructs and ratings regarding prosthetic use and different prosthetic options available. The RGT produced a unique profile of preferences regarding prosthetic technologies for each participant. Conclusions: User choice is an important factor when matching prosthetic technology to the user. The consumer's values regarding different prosthetic options are likely to be a critical factor in prosthetic acceptance and ultimate quality of life. The RGT offers a structured method of exploring these attitudes and values without imposing researcher or practitioner bias and identifies personalized dimensions for providers and users to evaluate the individuals' preferences in prosthetic technology.

Personal Constructs of Fluency: A Study Comparing Stutterers and Nonstutterers

1990 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Naidoo ◽  
Y G Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Communication Subsystems

The personal construct systems relating to fluency of a group of five stutterers and a group of five nonstutterers were examined using the repertory grid technique. The results support findings that stereotypical notions about stuttering were characteristic of both stutterers and nonstutterers and did not support Fransella's 1972 assumption that constructs relating to fluency differ in the communication subsystems of stutterers and nonstutterers.

The Use of the Repertory Grid Technique in the Individual Case

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (479) ◽  
pp. 965-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Slater
Keyword(s):  
Individual Case ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
The Individual

The terms “macrocosm” and “microcosm” have been taken by Jung from the traditions of the alchemists and the philosophy of Leibnitz for expressing his theories, but they are not often used elsewhere in psychiatry or psychology so it may be as well to define them when introducing them here.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING A MODIFIED REPERTORY GRID INSTRUMENT FOR ELICITING RESEARCH PARTICIPANT’S PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Imelwaty
Keyword(s):  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Research Questions

Previous application of the repertory grid technique in exploring participants’ personal constructs has been noteworthy. However, this technique could be modified to suit the purposes of the research questions, the conditions of the participants and the context of the study. This paper presents personal constructs theory which underpins the repertory grid technique and it also proposes the ways to developa modified repertory grid instrument for eliciting teachers’ personal constructs. According to Kelly (1955), a seminal psychologist, individual forms their constructs based on their observations and experiences and these personal constructs are used to interpret events. To elicit participants’ personal constructs regarding the topic under study, the repertory grid instrument, which is developed based on Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory, could bemodified through interview trials. After conducting the interview trials, the resultsshould be analyzed to identify whether this instrument is effective not only for participants but also for the researchers. The modified repertory grid instrument should allow and support participants in formalizing and elaborating their personal constructs. For the researchers, the instrument should be helpful to identify the participants’ personal constructs based on their own conceptions and understandings toward the topic under study.

A Study of the Reliability and Validity of the Repertory Grid Technique as a Measure of the Hysteroid/Obsessoid Component of Personality

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (528) ◽  
pp. 1305-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Caine ◽  
D. J. Smail
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Test Of Hypotheses ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Measure Change ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mathematical Relationships

One of the most attractive features of the Repertory Grid Technique from the clinician's point of view is that it provides a quantifiable test of hypotheses concerning data which are not readily measurable by more traditional standardized instruments (such as questionnaires). An example of such a situation as this would be where the psychologist wishes to measure change in a person's construing of his world before and after psychotherapy. This immediately involves, however, questions concerning the “reliability” and “validity” of the particular grid or grids used. How do we know whether reasonably stable psychological processes within the individual are reflected in equally stable mathematical relationships between constructs, and how do we know that we have chosen, or elicited, those constructs which really are most psychologically meaningful to the subject, or indeed psychologically meaningful at all ?

scholarly journals Structure and Contents of the Value and Meaning System of Mentally Ill Patients with the Religious Outlook

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
O.A. Borisova ◽  
V.V. Gusev ◽  
A.M. Dvoinin ◽  
G.I. Kopeyko
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Meaning System

The purpose of the study described in the article is to elicit value and meaning elements and to describe their structure in mentally ill patients with the religious outlook. The assumptions that the value and meaning system (VMS) of believing patients and non-believing ones differ are put forward. Four groups of subjects participate in the study: “Orthodox patients” (N = 24, 9 men and 14 women, age m = 26.7 ± 6); “Unbelieving patients” (N = 12 people, 3 men and 9 women, age m = 28.9 ± 7.6); “Healthy Orthodox believers” (N = 15 people, 4 men and 11 women, age m = 30.2 ± 6.4); “Healthy unbelievers” (N = 14 people, 5 men and 9 women, age m = 29.7 ± 5.1). G. Kelly’s methodology of personal constructs is applied in the study to assess the VMS: the triad method, Hinkle’s Laddering technique, and the repertory grid technique. The results show that the VMS of mentally ill patients with the religious outlook is characterized (in the structural aspect) by a greater mutual connection of value and meaning elements than in patients who do not believe. In comparison with believing patients, the unbelieving ones display significant disintegration and reduction of multiplicity of interrelationships between various value and meaning elements. The stability of the structure and key elements in the contents of the VMS in believing patients are probably explained by their special religious attitude to the disease as well as by the possibility, despite the disease, to actualize the meaning of life though the reaching for God.

An Application of Repertory Grid Technique to Aesthetic Measurement

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1183-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. A. O'hare ◽  
I. E. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Group Iii ◽  
Experimental Aesthetics ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
The Aesthetic

The repertory grid technique was used to measure the responses of three groups of subjects to slides of 12 paintings. Subjects in Groups I and II were then exposed to information relevant to the paintings. In Group III subjects received information which was not directly relevant to the paintings. Grids were then re-elicited. Various analyses of the grids showed that information can change subjects' responses to paintings but that such changes reflect alterations in use of constructs rather than in the actual perception of the paintings. It is argued that the repertory grid may be a valuable technique in experimental aesthetics as it can measure different aspects of the aesthetic response.

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