After collecting the data through participation and observation, the researcher found that the group identity (in a religious organization) is clearly acting upon, not only strengthening the bonds among the members but also bolstering self-identities of individual members in a positive way. Particularly, qualitative findings emerged through the researcher’s discrete observations, that is, about verbal and nonverbal communication patterns that occur repeatedly among group members. Therefore, here, the researcher divides such communication patterns under the four stages that the researcher identifies and introduces for readers.
The Four Stages of the Usual Communication Patterns among the Members at the Catholic Student Beta Organization: …show more content…
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In such a heightened atmosphere in terms of self-expressing, members willingly and actively engage in favoring or encouraging the other members’ trying to self-express, upon which positive self-esteem and self-enhancement can be developed or reinforced. In this regard, the researcher wants to further explicate the mechanisms of the four stages of communication in the next section, Discussion, (i.e., what kind of meanings are embedded in such communicative behaviors and why it is important for group members of the Catholic Student Beta organization to consistently communicate and exchange group identity.
The researcher discovered that the group identity is clearly acting upon, strengthening the bonds among the members as well as bolstering self-identities of individual members in a positive way. In this regard, the researcher identified the four stages of the usual communication repeatedly occurring among group members of the Beta Center house. In the next section, Discussion, the researcher further explain the meaning of the communication patterns by providing in-depth interpretations in terms of insider’s