A Scheme for Specifying Interaction Units

Schultz, S

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1975.00559.x

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“…Unitizing reliabilities between three unitizers for 20 transcript pages ranged from 75% to 85%. The significant event system we chose is based on the method described by Luborsky and Auerbach (1969) and Schultz (1975).7…”

Section: Family Interaction Data Analysesmentioning

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Familial Contexts of Adolescent Ego Development

Hauser¹,

Powers²,

Noam³

et al. 1984

Child Development

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In this paper we describe our newly constructed Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS). This scheme was constructed to identify family interactions that are conceptually relevant to adolescent ego development. First, we discuss the theoretical rationale and reliability properties of the codes. We then present results of applying the scales to observations of 61 families, consisting of 2 parents and an adolescent, drawn from matched high school and psychiatric populations. All families are upper and (predominantly) upper-middle class. Each member completed the Loevinger Sentence Completion Test and then participated in a revealed-differences task, using responses to Kohlberg Moral Dilemmas as discussion stimuli. Transcripts of these audiorecorded discussions formed the data base for the family analyses. After controlling for patient status and adolescent age, adolescent and parent ego-development scores still contributed to explained variance in family interactions. Adolescent ego development was positively associated with adolescent enabling behaviors (e.g., problem solving, empathy). In contrast, there were negative correlations between constraining behaviors (e.g., devaluing, withholding) and adolescent ego development. Parental behaviors were significantly associated with (a) parent ego development, and (b) adolescent ego development. The third dimension of our system, discourse change, also showed theoretically expected strong correlations between progressive discourse change and ego development. In our discussion we comment on the importance of now proceeding to sequence analyses in order to explore questions of directionality.

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Section: Family Interaction Data Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Familial Contexts of Adolescent Ego Development

Hauser¹,

Powers²,

Noam³

et al. 1984

Child Development

245

122

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“…In analyzing important transactions, the definition of a unit has been controversial (Hayes, Meltzer, & Wolf, 1970;Schultz, 1976). The problem sometimes has been resolved by denning a unit as an uninterrupted group of words from one person (see also Mueller & Billing, 1969), and this was the basis of the present procedure.…”

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Use of structural analysis of social behavior (SASB) and Markov chains to study dyadic interactions.

Benjamin¹

1979

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Benjamin's model for Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) is combined with Markov analysis to describe a critical incident in psychotherapy. The incident involved the acting out of pathological process, followed by the development of healthier alternatives in the context of Gestalt therapy. The SASB model classifies interpersonal transactions in terms of focus (other, self, or introjection), affiliation, interdependence (dominate-submit to give autonomy-take autonomy) and topic (primitive basics; approach-avoidance; need fulfillment, contact, nurturance; attachment; logic and communication; attention to self-development; balance in relationship; intimacy-distance; and identity). The results suggest the model is effective at describing dyadic interaction; addition of Markov chain procedures offers a promising methodology for denning pathological and constructive social process as well as the relation between the two.The quest for scientific yet clinically meaningful ways to study both pathological transactions in families and constructive interventions in psychotherapy is a major concern of academic clinical psychology. This search has taken on added importance with the advent of national health insurance, which will attempt to direct third-party payments to health care delivery systems that have demonstrated efficacy. Psychosocial therapies were found wanting by the President's Commission on Mental Health (1978), which also reported that behavior therapy and drug treat-I would like to thank Michael Church, William McKinney, Leslie Greenberg, Marjorie Klein, and some anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments on an earlier draft of this article. I would also like to acknowledge and thank Susan Estroff for her work as a rater and coauthor of the coding manual.The use of the University of Wisconsin's computing system was supported by funds from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Fund granted through the University Research Committee.Requests for reprints should be sent to Lorna

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Content-free speech activity records: interviews with people with schizophrenia

Cangemi,

Grice,

Janz

et al. 2023

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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Schizophrenia is characterised by a variety of symptoms, many of which are expressed verbally. However, privacy concerns limit the possibility of collecting and sharing large corpora of schizophrenic speech. As a result, variability in the communicative behaviour of individuals with schizophrenia is currently poorly understood. In this study we explore how far content-free speech activity records can successfully profile the behaviour of patients with schizophrenia. We used data from one of the very few publicly available corpora of conversations with patients with schizophrenia, featuring interviews between a therapist and three patients with different symptoms. Crucially, in this study we annotated only moments of speech and silence during the interview, and we entirely discarded the verbal content of the interview. In this way we perform a type of analysis that fully preserves the speakers’ privacy, while still allowing for comparisons with the full original recorded material. We developed several types of analyses and corresponding visualisations from the activity records. Exemplifying these analyses, clear patient-specific profiles can be derived, based on the dimensions of total silence duration and the speech duration of patients and therapists. These findings are consistent with an independent phenomenological assessment of the three patients.

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A Scheme for Specifying Interaction Units

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Familial Contexts of Adolescent Ego Development

Familial Contexts of Adolescent Ego Development

Use of structural analysis of social behavior (SASB) and Markov chains to study dyadic interactions.

Content-free speech activity records: interviews with people with schizophrenia

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