Therapist's preference on motivational interviewing and its relationship to interpersonal functioning and personality traits

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Background: Excessive directiveness runs contrary to the principles of motivational interviewing. Aims: This study investigated the connection between the therapist's attitude to such directiveness and interpersonal functioning or personality traits. Method: Participants (N = 162) were Finnish substance abuse therapists. Interpersonal functioning was measured with a vignette task and personality traits with a test based on the five-factor model. Results: Attitude to excessive directiveness was connected to interpersonal functioning: the more important a participant considered it to avoid this, the better was her/his interpersonal functioning. However, there was no connection between attitude to directiveness and personality traits. There was only a weak connection between interpersonal functioning and personality traits. Conclusions: Therapists with critical attitude towards excessive directiveness were more skilled in interpersonal functioning than others.View full textDownload full textKeywordssubstance abuse treatment, therapist, directiveness, interpersonal functioning, personality traits, five-factor modelRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2011.618258