Therapists' Expectancies and Treatment Outcome: Some Overlooked Factors
- 1 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 38 (3_suppl) , 1235-1238
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1976.38.3c.1235
Abstract
A recent study found factored measures of therapists' expectancies significantly correlated with 8 of 15 objective measures of treatment outcome for hospitalized patients. A subsequent study of the same relationships using unfactored expectancy measures with a diagnostically homogeneous sample of patients showed therapists' expectancies significantly correlated with 14 of 15 measures. This study reexamined the initial expectancy-outcome data using unfactored expectancy measures. The over-all results showed that characteristics of samples of subjects and the adequacy of expectancy measures both significantly influenced the results of tests of the expectancy-outcome relationship.Keywords
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