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Developmental Patterns in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Groups

MtL Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia

Susan A. Wheelan

Temple University

This study investigated developmental patterns in an all-male, all-female, and a mixed-sex group. Specifically, the research asked whether there were proportional differences in the types of verbal statements made in these three groups and whetherthese proportions changed over time. A repeated measures analysis of variance revealed no significant differences between the all-male and all-female groups. Developmental patterns were the same in both groups. Significant differences were noted between same-sex groups and the mixed-sex group. The verbal behaviorof men and women was notdifferentfrom each other in the mixedsex groups. However, both men and women responded differently in the larger mixed-sex group. The identified patterns of development in the same-sex groups corresponded well to those found in previous research on group development. This was generally true in the larger mixed-sex group as well, with three exceptions. Flight, which typically decreases across time, increased in the mixed-sex group. Work expected to increase, decreased in the larger group; and pairing, expected to peak in the third phase, peaked early and late in the mixed-sex group. The study concluded that sex composition does not influence group developmental patterns. Size of group does seem to alter these patterns to some extent, however.

Small Group Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, 356-378 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/1046496492233006


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