| Test Number | 34 |
| Title | Inventory of Individually Perceived Group Cohesiveness |
| Author | Johnson, D. L. |
| Category | Self-Report Inventory |
| Copyright Date | 1980 |
| Availability | Out of print |
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| Age/Grade Level | Pre-K-adult |
| Cost | No current information available |
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| Source | No current information available |
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| Definition | |
| Purposes | Designed to provide a measure of an individual’s perceptions of cooperation, control, and task influence processes operating as a group and resulting in some degree of group cohesiveness. |
| Characteristics | Digging Deeper into Ideas |
| Manual |
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| Fair | The manual seems well-organized in its discussion of; definition and purposes, target populations and uses, and administration and scoring instructions. There are significant omissions in reporting supporting research. |
| Validity |
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| Fair | Validity is reported, but it is not clear how the study related to this instrument specifically. |
| Reliability |
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| Fair | Reliability is reported, but it is not clear how the study related to this instrument specifically. |
| Utility |
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| Good | Usually given to individual group members prior to and/or right after a group session. Untimed, it is completed in under 15 minutes. There are 20 items. Responses are on a Likert-type scale. |
| Interpretation |
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| Fair | Scores reflect three dimensions of group communication: influence regarding the task, cooperation, expectational control. Norming numbers and dates are not provided in the manual. Used with preschool, school-age groups; adult groups; counseling groups, and training groups ranging in size from 2 to 30. |
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| Fair | Has been applied in settings varying in age, racial-ethnic identity, education level and gender. |
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