The group cohesion scale-revised: reliability and validity.

International Journal of Action Methods: Psychodrama, Skill Training, and Role Playing, March, 2001 by Kumar, V.K.; Lavertue, Nicole; Treadwell, Thomas; Veeraraghavan, Venkatesh

ABSTRACT. The authors revised the Group Cohesion Scale (V. Veeraraghavan, H. Kellar, T. W. Treadwell, & V. K. Kumar, 1996) by dropping 1 item, rewording one item; reducing the number of anchor points from 5 to 4 by dropping the not applicable response category; and changing the anchor points from low, moderately low, moderately high, and not applicable to the more familiar strongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree response categories. They tested the revised scale, consisting of 25 items, in 8 psychodrama group classes. The Group Cohesion Scale-Revised (V. Veeraraghavan et al., 1999) showed acceptably high reliability for use in research and seemed to be sensitive to detecting changes in cohesiveness as a function of group development. Consistent with their...

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