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Reliability Generalization of Working Alliance Inventory Scale Scores
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Reliability generalization (RG) was used to study five versions of the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI), including scores from 12 different scales. Sixty-seven internal consistency estimates, six interrater reliability estimates, and four study characteristics were analyzed. In general, reliability estimates of WAI scale scores appear to be robust. Mean reliability estimates ranged, in this sample of studies, from .79 to .97, with a modal estimate of .92. Variability in reliability estimates was, based on simple bivariate correlations, associated with client and therapist sample size for WAI total scores (observer version). Implications for measuring alliance using the WAI and conducting future RG studies on psychotherapy process measures are discussed.
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“The WAI-SR has been shown to have high internal consistency, with a Cronbach’s α of 0.91 [20, 38] and high reliability, with test-retest reliability of 0.93 (95% CI 0.83 to 0.97) [18].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hanson, W. E., Curry, K. T., & Bandalos, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hanson, William E.
- ORCID
- Bandalos, Deborah L.
- Venue
- Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 659-673
- ISSN
- 0013-1644 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3888
- OpenAlex
- W2122193551
- Cited by
- 161
- References
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- FWCI
- 2.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Educational and Psychological Measurement (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
- Keywords
- Working Alliance Inventory, therapeutic relationship, reliability generalization, internal consistency, inter-rater reliability, scale scores, observer ratings
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