A REEXAMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE GROSS COHESIVENESS SCALE

Psychologists have had a long-standing interest in the construct of gr oup cohesion. Yet, how this construct should be defined and measured r emains a controversial question. a central issue in the debate concern s the dimensionality of group cohesion. Recently, some researchers hav e adopted unidimensional models of this construct, whereas others have used multidimensional models of the same construct. In this study, th e structure of the Gross (1957) Cohesiveness Scale, which is perhaps t he most frequently used measure of group cohesiveness, was examined. B ased on a critical review of the results of three empirical reports an d reanalyses of the results of two of these studies it was concluded t hat Gross' measure is unidimensional.