A "Contrasting Position Grid" as a Diagnostic Measure of the Level of Development of Interpersonal Relations

Abstract

As a number of theoretical and experimental studies have shown [5,6,8,9,11, and others], the level of group development is an extremely important parameter of interpersonal relations. We refer to a general, integrative, sociopsychological characteristic of the group reflecting the mediation of interpersonal relations by the content and organization of joint activity and by the moral norms and values operating in the group. There is a fundamental difference between the stratometric approach to group processes and the traditional concepts of small-group dynamics in American psychology, in which the size of the group, the time it has existed, its composition, the feeling of belonging, feelings of satisfaction, etc., are taken as the chief parameters of the group. Essentially, the difference lies in the substantive normative definitions given to the group in the stratometric approach. The introduction of the principle of activity as a mediating link in social-psychological experiments has enabled us to constr...