The Relationship between Therapist Empathy, the Working Alliance, and Therapy Outcome: A Test of a Partial Mediation Model
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Elliott, Greenberg & Watson, 2002); yet the relationship among these variables is poorly understood.Using a random subset of 30 clients from the Vanderbilt 2 psychotherapy study (Strupp, 1993; Henry, Strupp, Butler, Schacht and Binder, 1993; and Henry, Schacht, Strupp, Butler and Binder, 1993) sample, the current study tested a mediational model in which empathy was predicted to have an influence on outcome indirectly through the alliance and directly, independent of the alliance.Bootstrap and Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis results supported the mediational role of the alliance in the relationship between empathy and therapy outcome; however, no direct effect of empathy on outcome independent of the alliance was found.
Author: Edgar H. Wing
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W41001294