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Tables of Contents for A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About the Authors
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
1. The Basis of Repertory Grid Technique
1
14
Grids: What Are They?
1
4
The Grid as Part of Personal Construct Theory
5
1
Grids: a Measure of What?
5
2
Grids are about Constructs
7
2
Some Personal Construct Theory Corollaries
9
3
Different Kinds of Construct
12
1
Constructs in Transition
12
1
Conclusions
12
3
2. Constructs And Elements
15
39
What is an Element?
15
1
What is a Construct?
15
3
Elements in a Grid
18
5
The Nature and Types of Constructs in a Grid
23
4
Ways of Eliciting Personal Constructs from 'Elements'
27
3
Eliciting Personal Constructs in Ways other than from 'Elements'
30
9
Eliciting Constructs from Constructs
39
7
To Elicit or to Supply Constructs?
46
3
Classification of Constructs
49
1
Which are more Important in a Grid - Elements or Constructs?
50
1
Constructs and Elements: the Debate
50
2
Comment
52
2
3. Varieties Of Grid In Use Today
54
28
The Grid Form of the Role Construct Repertory Test
54
1
The Split-Half Method of Allocating Elements
54
2
A Grid Using Rankings
56
3
A Grid Using Ratings
59
6
Implications and Resistance-to-Change Grids
65
5
Resistance-to-Change Grid
70
3
A Bipolar Implications Grid
73
3
Dependency Grid
76
2
A Textual Grid
78
1
A Qualitative Grid
79
1
Comment
80
2
4. Analyzing Grid Data
82
31
Repertory Grids
82
1
Analyzing Constructs
83
8
Analyzing Elements
91
2
Joint Representations of Constructs and Elements
93
5
Representations of Multiple Repertory Grid Data
98
3
Dependency Grids
101
3
Implications Grids
104
4
Comments
108
5
5. Some Summary Measures Of Structure
113
19
Cognitive Complexity
114
7
Extremity and Ordination
121
1
Conflict
122
2
Element Indices
124
2
Measures of Superordinacy
126
1
Measures of Intransitivity
127
1
Implications Grids
128
1
Dependency Grids
129
1
Comment
130
2
6. Reliability and Validity
132
21
Reliability
132
11
Conclusions
143
1
Validity
143
8
Conclusions
151
2
7. Specific Ways Of Using Grids
153
15
The Individual and the Grid
154
8
A Decision-Making Grid
162
1
Wholly or Partially Standardized Grid Formats
163
4
Conclusions
167
1
8. Some Uses To Which Grids Have Been Put
168
62
Grids in General
169
1
In the Clinical Setting
170
18
Working with Children
188
4
Teachers and Teaching
192
3
The Construing of Professionals
195
1
Those With Learning Difficulties
196
3
Social Relationships
199
5
Language
204
6
Dependency
210
1
The Use and Abuse of Drugs
211
1
The Family
212
1
Forensic Work
213
2
Maps, Planning and Environment
215
2
Market Research
217
1
Politics
218
1
Careers
219
1
Sport
220
1
Organizational and Business Applications
220
6
More Unusual Uses of Grids
226
4
Appendix Computer Programs and Websites
230
2
References
232
26
Author Index
258
4
Subject Index
262