Does personality predict emotional response to therapy?
This study examined the relationship between personality, as measured by the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) Disconstraint scale from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and emotional response to videotaped therapy-like vignettes, measured by an Emotion Response form. Forty-three community volunteers agreed to participate by watching 14 therapy-like vignettes. The participants completed an overall rating and a checklist of 7 emotions for each of the vignettes. Correlation coefficients were calculated for overall response ratings, negative emotion and positive emotion ratings, and PSY-5 disconstraint for each of the 14 therapy vignettes, along with previously hypothesized vignette sets of 7 Disconstrained and 7 Constrained vignettes. After partial correlations controlling for age, PSY-5 negative emotionality and PSY-5 introversion were calculated, only three significant relationships were found. A therapy-like vignette dealing with boundaries produced more negative emotions and fewer positive emotions in disconstrained subjects compared to constrained subjects. Another vignette giving control to the participant ("It's in your hands") produced fewer positive emotions in disconstrained versus constrained individuals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
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Pamela A Vrooman
(2006)
Does personality predict emotional response to therapy?
PhD thesis.