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Interchangeability of the Working Alliance Inventory and Working Alliance Inventory, Short Form.
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Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) ratings were compared with ratings comprising the 12-item WAI, Short Form (WAI-S). Responses were collected from 54 university counseling center client-therapist pairs after the 4th therapy session as well as at a final ratings point. WAI and WAI-S scores were highly correlated and had comparable descriptive statistics, internal consistencies, and subscale intercorrelations within and across rater perspectives. Predictive validity estimates for WAI and WAI-S total scales were also very similar. Fourth-session WAI and WAI-S scores were moderately predictive of therapy improvement ratings. Results support the interchangeability of scores on the WAI and WAI-S scales.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Busseri, M. A., & Tyler, J. D.
- Affiliations
- University of North Dakota (US)
- ORCID
- Busseri, Michael A.
- Venue
- Psychological Assessment
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 193-197
- ISSN
- 1040-3590 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-134X
- OpenAlex
- W2049589547
- Cited by
- 337
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 4.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Assessment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- Working Alliance Inventory, therapeutic relationship, counseling center clients, short-form scale, predictive validity, internal consistency
- MeSH terms
- Counseling, Humans, Professional-Patient Relations, Surveys and Questionnaires
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