Group Consensus and Psychological Well‐Being: A Large Field Study1

Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 28 Số 7 - Trang 563-580 - 1998
Paul D. Bliese1, Ronald R. Halverson1
1Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC

Tóm tắt

Models of group process propose that stressful social environments develop when there is a lack of consensus among group members about issues of relevance to the group. Based on these models, we expected that levels of consensus would be positively related to the average levels of psychological well‐being in naturally occurring work groups. An examination of data from 3,546 respondents within 73 work groups revealed that levels of consensus about leadership and peer relations were positively related to the average psychological well‐being of the group members, even after controlling for absolute level effects and covariates. In contrast, levels of consensus were not related to the average psychological well‐being of group members when identical analyses were conducted using pseudogroups.

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Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Tập 28 Số 7

563-580

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