Interpersonal Responsiveness Research Articles

Clinical observations of ghetto four-year-olds: Organization, involvement, interpersonal responsiveness, and psychosexual content of play

This study attempted to refine the assessment of the effectance of four-year-old children through observation of their play. Two scales were developed; the first scale defined organization, involvement, and interpersonal responsiveness in play, and the second operationally defined psychosexual content of play. The validity and reliability of both scales and the inter correlations among the four major variables were explored. The results confirmed the validity and reliability of the instruments as measures of the children's effectance and important indicators of a child's capacity as a learner at age four.

Parental Interaction With Schizophrenic Children and Well Siblings

Theories that link the development of schizophrenia to patterns of family interaction tend to assume that there are systematic differences in how parents interact with their patient child and with their nonpatient children. In this study, this assumption is tested with data derived from a small group experiment that included normal control families as well as the families of patients. A number of variables were examined including interpersonal control strategies, expressiveness, and responsiveness. Several alternative indices of parental interaction were constructed and examined including each parent's behavior, their combined behavior as a parental pair, and the relative amount of behavior directed towards the child. In no instance, for any variable or for any measure of parental interaction, was there a consistent and predictable change from a situation where the patient was present to one where the sibling was present.

GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOTICS.

Some features of interpersonal responsiveness of people who manifest psychotic distortions are described in relation to the potential uses of group interaction as therapy. An attempt is made to characterize the activity and emphasis most useful for the leader of such a group as contrasted with groups of psychoneurotics.