Group Process and Social Climate of Grow, a Community Mental Health Organisation

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Young ◽  
Christopher L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Personal Changes

GROW, a community based mutual-help organisation, aims to provide the means for those who have been mentally ill to rehabilitate themselves and grow personally. We measured psychiatric symptoms, group processes, social environment and perceived social support in a sample of GROW group members. We found that GROW does provide the opportunity for and encourages some personal changes and does provide social support. We could not draw any conclusions about GROW'S efficacy as a rehabilitative agent.

PERSONAL AND SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF RELATIONSHIP-SPECIFIC PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Gracia ◽  
Juan Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
Urban Sample

This study explores personal (self-esteem, perceived stress, and depressive mood) and situational (undesirable life events) variables as determinants of relationship-specific perceptions of social support. Structural equation analyses from two-wave panel data (N = 583) of adult participants from a community-based urban sample revealed that, after controlling for initial levels of perceived social support, psychological characteristics (high levels of stress and depression, and low levels of self-esteem) and situational determinants (number of undesirable life events) were both negatively related to perceived social support from specific significant relationships over time. Multigroup analyses revealed that these processes generalized across groups of gender, income, and marital status (single vs. married). Implications of these findings are discussed.

Group Processes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Stangor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Group Outcomes ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Effective Group ◽  
And Task

Group process refers to the behaviors of the members of small working groups (usually between three and twelve members) as they engage in decision-making and task performance. Group process includes the study of how group members’ characteristics interact with the behavior of group members to create effective or ineffective group performance. Relevant topics include the influences of group norms, group roles, group status, group identity, and group social interaction as they influence group task performance and decision-making, the development and change of groups over time, group task typologies, and decision-making schemes. Relevant group outcomes include group cohesion, process losses and process gains in performance, free riding, ineffective information sharing, difficulties in brainstorming, groupthink, and group polarization. Other variables that influence effective group process include group member diversity, task attractiveness, and task significance. A variety of techniques are used to improve group process.

scholarly journals Perceived Social Support among Mentally Ill Patients

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Bandana Pokharel ◽  
Anupama Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Psychiatric Department

Introduction: Social support is the perception that one is cared for, has assistance available from significant others and its benefit is by buffering stress by influencing the ability to adjust and live with illness. Social support can uplift the quality and subjective wellbeing of people. The objective of this study was to examine the perceived social support and factors influencing it among mentally ill patients. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. Ninety cases aged more than 18 years visiting outpatient of psychiatric department and diagnosed as a case of mental illness for at least a year were included. Instruments used were self-developed proforma and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Interview technique was used to collect the data. Results: Majority (60%) of the patients perceive social support from family, 28% of the patients perceive social support from significant others. Regression analysis showed that the perceived social support is influenced by employment status, type of family one lives in and physical illness. It is not influenced by gender, subjective financial status and frequency of hospitalization. Conclusion: Perceived social support is influenced by employment status, type of family one lives in and physical illness. Majority (60%) of the patients perceive social support from family.

scholarly journals Opening the Black Box: A Multilevel Framework for Studying Group Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas W. B. Lang ◽  
Paul D. Bliese ◽  
Amy B. Adler
Keyword(s):  
Group Process ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Modeling Group ◽  
Process Framework ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Over Time

Over time, groups can change in at least two important ways. First, they can display different trajectories (e.g., increases or decreases) on constructs of interest. Second, the configuration of group members’ responses within a group can change, such that the members become more or less similar to each other. Psychologists have historically been interested in understanding changes in groups over time; however, there is currently no comprehensive quantitative framework for studying and modeling group processes over time. We present a multilevel framework for such research—the multilevel group-process framework (MGPF). The MGPF builds on a statistical approach developed to capture whether individual members of a group develop a shared climate over time, but we extend the core ideas in two important ways. First, we describe how researchers can gain insights into group phenomena such as group leniency, group learning, groupthink, group extremity, group forming, group freezing, and group adjourning through modeling change in latent mean levels and consensus. Second, we present a sequence of model-testing steps that enable researchers to systematically study and contrast different group processes. We describe how the MGPF can lead to novel research questions and illustrate its use in two example data sets.

scholarly journals An Exploration of Co-Workers’ Group Identification as Moderator of the Leadership-Health Link

2021 ◽  
pp. 104649642110075
Author(s):  
Martin P. Fladerer ◽  
Sonja Kugler ◽  
Louisa G. Kunze
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Contextual Influence ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study explores the leadership-health link from a social identity perspective. It focuses on leadership behaviors that seek to form a strong shared social identity (i.e., identity leadership) and the contextual influence of co-workers’ group identification. In a sample of 319 members in 77 workgroups, data supports the indirect link of identity leadership and reduced symptoms of burnout via perceived social support. However, contrary to our expectation, high levels of co-workers’ group identification weakened the relationship of identity leadership and perceived social support. The implications of this finding for the understanding of leadership as a group process are discussed.

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

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