Producing positive interaction among Down syndrome and nonhandicapped teenagers through cooperative goal structuring

Effects of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic goal structures compared on the dimensions of interpersonal interaction and attraction. Subjects were nonhandicapped and Down syndrome junior high school students who participated in eight weekly sessions of recreational bowling. Results indicated that significantly more positive interactions and evidence of greater interpersonal attraction took place between the nonhandicapped students and the Down syndrome students in the cooperative condition than in the competitive and individualistic conditions. .