An adjective list for assessing emotional expressivity in psychotherapy research |
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| Authors: | Daniel Leising Jochen Müller Christina Hahn |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Halle‐Wittenberg;2. Department of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology, University of Würzburg;3. Communication Science, University of Duisburg‐Essen, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Background: Several forms of psychotherapy aim at improving their patients' emotional expressivity, which is considered to contribute to mental health. Studies on the success of such attempts are virtually absent. Aim: To develop a measure for assessing changes of emotional expressivity in the course of psychotherapy. Method: In study 1 (N = 321), we generated a pool of German adjectives referring to emotional expressivity and reduced the number of those adjectives by means of factor‐analysis. In study 2 (N = 103), we determined how emotional expressivity is related to the Big Five personality factors. Results: An expressivity scale of 12 items with highly satisfactory psychometric properties was construed. Emotional expressivity is substantially related to Extraversion and moderately related to Agreeableness and Openness. Conclusion: The scale is ideally suited for repeated assessments in the course of psychotherapy in multi‐agent (e.g., inpatient) settings. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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