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The Impact Message Inventory (IMI‐C): generalizability of patients’ command and relationship messages across psychiatric nurses
Author(s) -
HAFKENSCHEID A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2005.00843.x
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , dysfunctional family , interpersonal communication , dominance (genetics) , psychology , psychiatric ward , context (archaeology) , interpersonal relationship , psychiatry , psychiatric hospital , clinical psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , paleontology , biology , gene
This paper tests the hypothesis that patients’ stereotypical dysfunctional interpersonal communication styles would be validly measurable by the command or relationship messages experienced by psychiatric nurses while interacting with the patient in the relatively unstructured every day context of the psychiatric ward. The generalizability of interpersonal pressures exerted by patients was tested by having different psychiatric nurses independently appraise patients’ command or relationship messages with the Impact Message Inventory, circumplex version (IMI‐C). Generalizablity of interpersonal pressures strongly depended on the specific combination of psychiatric nurses. Out of eight classes of command or relationships three turned out to be generalizable across nurses: Dominance, Hostile‐Submissive and Friendly Dominance.