PERSONALITY, HABIT, AND SELF DISCLOSURE: CORRELATES OF ROOMMATE SATISFACTION AND CLOSENESS BETWEEN NURSING HOME ROOMMATES.
Contributors: Texas A & M University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Education, Educational Psychology.; Psychology, Clinical.
Description: This study examines how selected habit, personality, and self disclosure variables correlate with roommate satisfaction and closeness among nursing home roommates. Data were collected during personal structured interviews with 41 residents of a nursing home in southeast, Texas.

Data on perceived differences in habit between the subject and the subject's roommate were collected on the following factors: time of rising, time of going to bed, amount of television watched, importance of neatness and orderliness, amount of time spent out of room each day, and number of visitors each week. Personality and self disclosure were measured using a modified version of the FIRO-B (Schutz, 1966) and the Self Disclosure index (Rubin and Shenker, 1978), respectively. Data were correlated with criterion measures of satisfaction and closeness collected from nursing home residents and from nurse's aides who worked with the residents.

Perceived differences in neatness and orderliness, and in amount of television watched were the habit variables most highly correlated to measures of satisfaction and closeness among nursing home residents. Also, the self disclosure index showed a significant correlation with criterion measures of satisfaction and closeness. Mean criterion measures obtained from nurse's aides were higher than those obtained from residents. Resident's evaluations of closeness and satisfaction are significantly correlated with disclosure, differences in neatness, and differences in amount of television watched. Nurse's aides' evaluation of closeness are significantly correlated with differences in amount of television watched, differences in neatness, differences in amount of time spent out of the room, and amount of self disclosure. Nurse's aides' evaluation of satisfaction is significantly correlated to differences in amount of time spent out of the room, differences in neatness, and number of personal objects in room. Measures of personality obtained from the modified FIRO-B showed a significant correlation between high inclusion scores and less roommate satisfaction.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: A, page: 1412.

Thesis (PH.D.)--TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0803.