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Patient characteristics and expectancy measures as factors that influence the expectancy‐improvement relationship
Author(s) -
Lindsey Carole J.,
Martin Paul J.,
Sterne Arthur L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197710)33:4<1125::aid-jclp2270330446>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - expectancy theory , psychology , life expectancy , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , demography , population , sociology
A recent study found factored measures of patients' expectancies for therapeutic gain significantly correlated with 1 of 15 objective measures of treatment outcome for the hospitalized patients. A subsequent study of the same relationship that used unfactored expectancy measures with a diagnostically homogeneous sample of patients found the patients' expectancies significantly correlated with 10 of the same 15 measures of improvement. This study reexamined the initial expectancy‐improvement data using unfactored measures of expectancy. The overall results showed that characteristics of samples of S s and the adequacy of expectancy measures both significantly influence the results of tests of the expectancy‐improvement relationship.