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BACKGROUND: Interpersonal behavioral style (IPBS) refers to the way in which someone behaves in social contact. IPBS affects the type and quality of different social interactions including the therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic relationship correlates with treatment outcome, IPBS possibly too. The direction of that relationship remains unclear. AIM: To examine the predictive value of IPBS on treatment outcome in group treatment. METHOD: 149 patients were divided in different types of IPBS: degree of affiliation (kindness vs. hostility), degree of dominance (dominant vs. submissive), quadrants (combination of affiliation and dominance) and vector length (strength of IPBS). Treatment outcome was measured in experienced psychopathology, social anxiety and frequency of social contact. Groups were compared by using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Significant differences were analyzed using Tukey's post-hoc analysis. RESULTS: Vector length predicted all treatment outcome measures. The degree of dominance predicted only scores on social anxiety and frequency of social contact. The degree of affiliation did not predict any treatment results. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that adult patients with stronger IPBS and a more submissive, sub-assertive IPBS experienced lower social anxiety scores and increased frequency of social contact after treatment. A stronger IPBS also predicts lower experienced psychopathology post-treatment. The degree of kindness/hostility does not affect treatment outcome.
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Assertiveness , Interpersonal Relations , Adult , Humans , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, unemployed people in sick leave, can get sickness payment from the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV), so called 'vangnetters' (users of a safety net). They participated in a day-care program for people with psychological work-related complaints together with people in sick leave who were employed by an employer who were referred to a university psychiatric center (UCP).
AIM: Comparison of both groups on initial complaints and treatment outcome.
METHOD: A retrospective explorative study (during an 11-years period) comparing start and follow-up measurements by using questionnaires.
RESULTS: The UWV group (n = 111) differed from the UCP group (n = 254) at the start of the program: longer sickness leave, more severe initial complaints and a few other coping strategies. One year after finishing the program, 61% of the UWV group and 83% of the UCP group were in paid employment. People who were not in paid employment after a year already had more initial complaints compared to people who were back at work. The length of sickness leave was not a limiting factor for reintegration in work.
CONCLUSION: Differences in initial symptoms and coping strategies did not really lead to differences in perspective of reintegration in work. Cooperation with the UWV for employed as well as unemployed people in sick leave led to good treatment results.
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Employment , Sick Leave , Humans , Netherlands , Retrospective Studies , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Various types of reliable instruments are available for measuring personality dimensions. One of these instruments is the NVM, which is a Dutch shortened version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, but its use is no longer permitted. AIM: To find out whether the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) can serve as an alternative to the NVM. METHOD: A study has compared the NVM questionnaire to the TCI, which is a personality questionnaire designed from a more psychiatric perspective. The two types of questionnaire were completed by 91 psychiatric (out)patients. Correlation analyses were performed. RESULTS: Statistically significant correlations were found between the various scales of the NVM and the TCI. Unique combinations of the TCI scales were found to predict the various NVM scales. CONCLUSION: It is worth considering the TCI as an alternative to the NVM.