TY - JOUR
AU - WAXLER, NANCY E.
AB -  Social interaction is patterned and organized through time. This states the obvious. Nevertheless, this critical feature of interaction has received relatively little empirical study. The vast amount of research on interaction in small groups and families would be summarized with fair accuracy by the statement that there has been almost exclusive emphasis on summary or aggregate measures of behavior, that is, on measures of behavior summed and averaged across an interval of time to provide overall indexes. In contrast, this paper focuses on the sequential patterning of interaction through time. The data are derived from discussions within family triads consisting of parents and an adult, male child. This is one part of a larger study of family interaction (described more fully in Mishler and Waxler, 12 ) in which the central question is whether there are differences between families with a schizophrenic child and “normal” families; this contrast will be retained in the present analysis. The primary method used is a modification of multivariate informational analysis, or MIA (see Attneave, 1 , and Garner, 5 ); other statistical procedures are used where appropriate. The first section of the paper briefly reviews related studies and outlines the background of 
TI - The Sequential Patterning of Interaction in Normal and Schizophrenic Families
JF - Family Process
DO - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1975.00017.x
DA - 1975-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-sequential-patterning-of-interaction-in-normal-and-schizophrenic-SpDjMe2iNF
SP - 17
VL - 14
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -