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Management Positions and Manager Styles: An Application of Typal Analysis

Jones, David P.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566302070902853

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1976, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology.
The two experiments comprising this Dissertation were designed to investigate the physiological effects of the context of stimuli and the level of somatic tension during an imagery task. Experiment 1 was designed to evaluate the effects of both stimulus activity and valence on the heart rate (HR) response. Stimuli were contextually complete sentences incorporating a main stern which varied in rated valence (good-bad), and a modifier which varied in rated activity (active-passive). All subjects were instructed to engage in "neutral" cognitive activity, then "think" of the stimulus sentence, and finally attempt to fonn a vivid image to the sentence. Heart rate, respiration, frontalis electromyogram, and electrodermal activity were recorded continuously. Experiment 1 also attempted to vary somatic tension through instructions. The results indicate that marked phasic HR accelerations occurred during the imagery period. The magnitude of the accelerations was most clearly dependent on the rated activity of the stimulus, however, significant cardiac accelerations were also associated with highly negative stimuli. Significant changes were noted in respiration and electro-myogram activity indicating that the HR acceleration may have been partially mediated by somatic tension. The results indicate that the magnitude of the HR acceleration during an imagery task is the complex result of both the rated activity and valence of the stimulus. Experiment 2 was designed to explore more fully the role of somatic mediation on the cardiac response by controlling the evaluative context of the stimuli, and adding an additional instructional manipulation and a nonimagery control group. The number of trials was increased to study the habituation of cardiac responding. HR responding indicated clear and highly significant differential cardiac responding to stimuli with differing rated activity levels. Further, although significant habituation occurred over the first four trials, HR acceleration to high activity stimuli showed considerable resistance to habituation which indicates persistent autonamic reactivity over repeated images. As in Experiment 1, significant differences in respiration and electromyogram variables further support the hypothesis that somatic events occurring contiguously with attempts to form images may in part account for the HR response. The results are discussed in relation to the role of cardiac-somatic coupling and additional theoretical positions.
Harold J. Johnson (Advisor)
Occupational Psychology

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  • Jones, D. P. (1976). Management Positions and Manager Styles: An Application of Typal Analysis [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566302070902853

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jones, David. Management Positions and Manager Styles: An Application of Typal Analysis. 1976. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566302070902853.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jones, David. "Management Positions and Manager Styles: An Application of Typal Analysis." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1976. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566302070902853

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