Doran Jennifer M, Safran Jeremy D, Muran J Christopher
Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research.
Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University.
Psychol Assess. 2016 Aug;28(8):885-97. doi: 10.1037/pas0000222. Epub 2015 Oct 12.
This study investigates the utility and psychometric properties of a new measure of psychotherapy process, the Alliance Negotiation Scale (ANS; Doran, Safran, Waizmann, Bolger, & Muran, 2012). The ANS was designed to operationalize the theoretical construct of negotiation (Safran & Muran, 2000), and to extend our current understanding of the working alliance concept (Bordin, 1979). The ANS was also intended to improve upon existing measures such as the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI; Horvath & Greenberg, 1986, 1989) and its short form (WAI-S; Tracey & Kokotovic, 1989) by expanding the emphasis on negative therapy process. The present study investigates the psychometric validity of the ANS test scores and interpretation-including confirming its original factor structure and evaluating its internal consistency and construct validity. Construct validity was examined through the ANS' convergence and divergence with several existing scales that measure theoretically related constructs. The results bolster and extend previous findings about the psychometric integrity of the ANS, and begin to illuminate the relationship between negotiation and other important variables in psychotherapy research. (PsycINFO Database Record
本研究调查了一种新的心理治疗过程测量工具——联盟谈判量表（ANS；多兰、萨夫兰、魏兹曼、博尔杰和穆兰，2012年）的效用和心理测量特性。ANS旨在将谈判的理论结构（萨夫兰和穆兰，2000年）进行操作化，并扩展我们目前对工作联盟概念（博丁，1979年）的理解。ANS还旨在通过扩大对消极治疗过程的强调，改进现有的测量工具，如工作联盟量表（WAI；霍瓦斯和格林伯格，1986年、1989年）及其简版（WAI-S；特雷西和科科托维奇，1989年）。本研究调查了ANS测试分数和解释的心理测量效度——包括确认其原始因素结构并评估其内部一致性和结构效度。通过ANS与几个测量理论相关结构的现有量表的收敛性和发散性来检验结构效度。研究结果支持并扩展了先前关于ANS心理测量完整性的发现，并开始阐明谈判与心理治疗研究中其他重要变量之间的关系。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》 ）
