The effects of interpersonal relationship and goal setting on effort distribution between individual tasks and group tasks.

• Main Author: 王榮春
• Other Authors: Yen Ning-Shing
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1994
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06534339708860675818

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 心理學系 === 82 === In this study, experimenter informed subjects to per- form two tasks at the same time; one was individual task, the other was group task. The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate how subjects distributed their limited effort between group tasks and indivi- dual tasks, and (2) investigate the effects of inter- personal relationship (familiar vs. unfamiliar) and goal setting condition (no group goal vs.assigned group goal vs. participated group goal) on effort distribu- tion between individual tasks and group tasks. It was found that (1) subjects distrubuted more efforts to in- dividual tasks than group tasks , and (2) familiar group subjects distributed more effort to group tasks than unfamiliar group subjects, and (3)assigned group goal and participated group goal subjects distributed more efforts to group tasks than no group goal subjects . The implication of these findings for goal setting theory and interpersonal theory was discussed.