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Personal Construct Psychology

Personal Construct Psychology. Viv Burr. Personal Construct Psychology. A healthy diet A good hotel A bad father. Personal Construct Psychology. George Kelly (1930s) The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955) Uniqueness of the person Focus on personal meanings CONSTRUCTS.

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Personal Construct Psychology

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  1. Personal Construct Psychology Viv Burr

  2. Personal Construct Psychology • A healthy diet • A good hotel • A bad father

  3. Personal Construct Psychology • George Kelly (1930s) • The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955) • Uniqueness of the person • Focus on personal meanings • CONSTRUCTS

  4. Personal Construct Psychology • Poles • Bi-Polar eg friendly atmosphere vs unwelcoming

  5. Personal Construct Psychology Repertory Grid Enables you to: • Examine the person’s unique pattern of constructs (“Individuality”) • Examine the relationships between constructs • Examine the relationships between objects or events for the person • Examine shared construing (“Commonality”)

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  7. Personal Construct Psychology Stage 1: Role Repertory Test Steps: • Think of a number of “Elements” • Construct elicitation using triads (groups of 3) or dyads (pairs)

  8. Personal Construct Psychology Stage 2: complete the grid 1. Enter the constructs on your grid Using 0 for the left (preferred) pole and X for the right (contrast, non-preferred) pole: Enter preferred pole Enter contrast (non-preferred) pole Use one row for each construct

  9. Personal Construct Psychology 2. Score the elements on the constructs Taking each construct (row) in turn, enter a 0 or X in the boxes in that row to represent which pole of the construct each element lies at for you.

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  11. Personal Construct Psychology Related Elements: Snickers, Ideal and Milky Way Related constructs: satisfying/still hungry & chewy/not chewy has bits/smooth & hard/soft

  12. Personal Construct Psychology References • Butt and Burr (2004) An Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology. 2nd edition. London: Whurr publishers. • Caputi, P., Viney, L., Walker, B.M. and Crittenden, N. (eds) (2012) Personal Construct Methodology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. • Kelly, G. (1955). The psychology of personal constructs. New York: Norton. • Banister, P., Burman, E., Parker, I., Taylor, M. and Tindall, C. (1994) Qualitative Methods in Psychology, Buckingham: Open University Press. • Fransella, F. and Bannister, D. (1977) A manual for repertory grid technique. Academic Press Inc. • Neimeyer, G. J. (1993) Constructivist Assessment. London: Sage.

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