Effects of Three Types of Group Leadership Structure on the Self-Perceptions of Undergraduate Nursing Students

Validation of two experimental nursing approaches using content analysis

“…Diers, Schmidt, McBride, and Davis (1972) used content analysis to study the effect of different styles of nursepatient interaction on pain relief, while Mood and Lakin (1979) applied this technique to examine the attitudes of nursing personnel toward the dying. Process analysis has been used to study instrumental and affective aspects of the interaction of public health nurses with their clients (Conant, 1965), to analyze small group functioning (McLaughlin, Davis, & Reed, 1972;McLaughlin & White, 1973;McLaughlin, White, & Byfield, 1974), to study the directiveness of nurses in interviewing patients (Sullivan, Grover, Lynaugh, & Levy, 1975), and to examine risk taking in setting health care goals for geriatric patients (Feiger & Schmitt, 1979). A more detailed review of the use of process and content analysis in nursing research was provided by Diers and Schmidt (1977).…”