PERSONALITY TRAITS AND EVALUATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY ALLIANCE

Abstract

Over the past decades in the field of psychotherapy, the researchers have been mainly concentrated on the investigation of

therapeutic procedures, protocols, and therapeutic techniques. Although this way provides a significant contribution to the understanding of psychotherapy processes and outcomes, the unique contribution personality traits of psychotherapists and clients was in the background.

The research explored the relations between personality traits and evaluation of psychotherapeutic alliance. Basic problem was formulated via following question: Are there relations between personality of the clients, diagnoses, age and evaluation of psychotherapy alliance?

Personality traits were chosen from a “Big Fife” model, and were measured by the Big Fife plus Two Questionnaire. Evaluation of psychotherapy alliance was based on the humanistic-existential theory and was measured by the Relationship Questionnaire.

The sample comprised of 58 subjects, participants of the Gestalt psychotherapy groups.

The results showed that there was an important influence of Openness on evaluation of psychotherapy relationship F(6,44) = 3.445, p < 0.01. Differences concerning Diagnoses were not significant