Health Sciences 2801A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter F: Repertory Grid, Personal Construct Theory, Cluster Analysis
3 Dec 2017
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Reading f note repertory grid: according to kelly (1955), a person understands the world using a system of personal constructs. A personal scientist, like a professional scientist, has constructs that serve as hypotheses about the world, and these constructs are tested and revised with the goal of finding a greater sense of order in the world. This position, which he terms constructive alternativism, is a rather optimistic perspective of human experience because it implies that a person always has alternative ways of construing life events. A respondent might say that her mother and father are kind , but the threatening person is mean . In saying this, the respondent is expressing a personal construct, namely kind versus mean: in kelly"s original repertory grid, the triadic method was used to obtain a set of 22 personal constructs. In a repertory grid, a person rates each element on every personal construct.
