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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Basis of Repertory Grid Technique | |
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| Grids: What Are They? | |
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| The Grid as Part of Personal Construct Theory | |
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| Grids: a Measure of What? | |
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| Grids are about Constructs | |
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| Some Personal Construct Theory Corollaries | |
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| Different Kinds of Construct | |
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| Constructs in Transition | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Constructs And Elements | |
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| What is an Element? | |
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| What is a Construct? | |
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| Elements in a Grid | |
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| The Nature and Types of Constructs in a Grid | |
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| Ways of Eliciting Personal Constructs from 'Elements' | |
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| Eliciting Personal Constructs in Ways other than from 'Elements' | |
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| Eliciting Constructs from Constructs | |
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| To Elicit or to Supply Constructs? | |
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| Classification of Constructs | |
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| Which are more Important in a Grid--Elements or Constructs? | |
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| Constructs and Elements: the Debate | |
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| Comment | |
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| Varieties Of Grid In Use Today | |
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| The Grid Form of the Role Construct Repertory Test | |
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| The Split-Half Method of Allocating Elements | |
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| A Grid Using Rankings | |
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| A Grid Using Ratings | |
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| Implications and Resistance-to-Change Grids | |
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| Resistance-to-Change Grid | |
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| A Bipolar Implications Grid | |
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| Dependency Grid | |
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| A Textual Grid | |
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| A Qualitative Grid | |
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| Comment | |
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| Analyzing Grid Data | |
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| Repertory Grids | |
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| Analyzing Constructs | |
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| Analyzing Elements | |
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| Joint Representations of Constructs and Elements | |
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| Representations of Multiple Repertory Grid Data | |
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| Dependency Grids | |
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| Implications Grids | |
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| Comments | |
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| Some Summary Measures Of Structure | |
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| Cognitive Complexity | |
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| Extremity and Ordination | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Element Indices | |
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| Measures of Superordinacy | |
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| Measures of Intransitivity | |
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| Implications Grids | |
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| Dependency Grids | |
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| Comment | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Validity | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Specific Ways Of Using Grids | |
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| The Individual and the Grid | |
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| A Decision-Making Grid | |
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| Wholly or Partially Standardized Grid Formats | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Some Uses To Which Grids Have Been Put | |
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| Grids in General | |
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| In the Clinical Setting | |
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| Working with Children | |
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| Teachers and Teaching | |
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| The Construing of Professionals | |
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| Those With Learning Difficulties | |
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| Social Relationships | |
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| Language | |
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| Dependency | |
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| The Use and Abuse of Drugs | |
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| The Family | |
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| Forensic Work | |
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| Maps, Planning and Environment | |
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| Market Research | |
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| Politics | |
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| Careers | |
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| Sport | |
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| Organizational and Business Applications | |
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| More Unusual Uses of Grids | |
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| Computer Programs and Websites | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |