The scale demonstrated reasonable item homogeneity. Validity data from five separate samples suggested that scores on the Group Therapist Orientation Scale related meaningfully to actual behavior in a group therapy context. (Author)

Using tape recorded psychotherapy sessions, three methods of assessing the quality of a psychotherapist's empathy were compared. One of the results was that the three scales were not measuring different qualities as the intercorrelations among the three empathy measures were virtually perfect when corrected for unreliability. (Author/CG)

Those Ss who scored high, medium or low on a scale of trait (predispositional) anxiety were found to differ reliably in level of state (situational) anxiety when tested before and after two standardized interviews. This relationship held for both male and female Ss, although males manifested consistently higher levels of state anxiety than…