The Effects Of Patient-Therapist AB Complementarity And Similarity Upon Patients' Ratings Of Their Respective Therapists On The Semantic Differential

Research on the A-B variable as a predictor of therapist effectiveness in psychotherapy has been extended to include characteristics of the patient and therapist which interact and relate to the effectiveness criterion. Conclusions have been inconsistent and contradictory. For this experiment, the null hypotheses were that there were no significant differences between the patients' ratings of their respective therapists from AM complementary interactions and the patients' ratings of their respective therapists from AB similarity interactions on the evaluative, potency, and activity factors of the Semantic Differential.