Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.27.2.05
Effects of Group Discussion Attachment Styles and Facilitation on the Quality of Deliberation
Metka Kuhar
; Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana
Katja Jeznik
; Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana
Abstract
In this paper, we analyse the effects of group discussion
attachment styles and their influence in interactions
involving facilitation on the quality of the discussion process
(according to deliberative prerequisites, such as equal
participation, argumentation and respect). We conducted
26 deliberative discussions with 226 teachers from 13
primary schools on the topic of school discipline measures.
The discussions, each including 7–12 participants,
lasted 90 minutes; half of them were professionally
facilitated in line with the deliberative criteria and half of
them were non-facilitated. The higher an individual's
group discussion attachment anxiety, the lower their
self-assessment of the deliberative functioning and
assessment of the group's deliberative functioning.
Facilitation improved the assessment of individual
deliberative functioning in those individuals who scored
higher for group discussion attachment anxiety, while
facilitated individuals higher on group discussion
attachment avoidance assessed group deliberative
functioning lower than the non-facilitated ones.
Keywords
deliberation; group discussion; facilitation; attachment styles; school discipline
Hrčak ID:
202683
URI
Publication date:
29.6.2018.
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