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The Effect of Solution‐Focused Versus Problem‐Focused Questions: A Replication
Author(s) -
Neipp MarieCarmen,
Beyebach Mark,
Nuñez Rosa M.,
MartínezGonzález MarieCarmen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12140
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , replication (statistics) , psychological intervention , psychology , set (abstract data type) , solution focused brief therapy , adjunct , empirical research , action (physics) , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , epistemology , physics , communication , virology , quantum mechanics , programming language , linguistics , philosophy
In therapeutic conversations, questions can be considered as interventions in their own right. This study is a cross‐cultural replication of G rant ( Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2012, 31, 2, 21) study on the effects of different types of questions on various clinically relevant variables. A total of 204 students of a S panish university described a real‐life problem that they wanted to solve and were then randomly assigned to either a solution‐focused or a problem‐focused questions condition. Before and after answering the questions, they completed a set of measures that assessed positive and negative affect, self‐efficacy, and goal attainment. Solution‐focused questions produced a significantly greater increase in self‐efficacy, goal approach, and action steps than problem‐focused questions, and a significantly greater decrease in negative affect, providing further empirical support to solution‐focused practices.