Videotape replay and recall in group work

Assigned 37 university students to 1 of 4 groups to assess the effect of N. Kagan's Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) videotape replay method on group work and compare it with a T-group method. The IPR groups showed significantly greater change in individual and group interaction factors, as measured by Bills's Index of Adjustment and Values, Jourard's Self-Disclosure Scale, and the Hill Interaction Matrix. The 2 group methods had a differential effect according to population. High self-esteem, socially active Ss showed no difference between methods. The self-confrontation of IPR was beneficial to the low self-esteem, socially inactive Ss, while the direct confrontation of the T-group method seemed to have an adverse effect. (17 ref)