Abstract
This study examined the intake levels of client general anxiety and attachment anxiety andthe relationship of these levels to changes in therapy alliance across the first four couple therapysessions. Participants were 165 couples in a treatment-as-usual setting. Dyadic growth curvemodeling was used to determine whether couple ratings of therapeutic alliance changed overtime and explored the influence of general anxiety and attachment anxiety on therapeutic alliancedevelopment. Results showed that the alliance increased over the first four therapy sessions.Additionally, female alliance ratings across time were positively associated with female generalanxiety and negatively associated with male attachment anxiety. Results also showed that maleattachment anxiety was negatively associated with male alliance ratings across time.
Degree
MS
College and Department
Family, Home, and Social Sciences; Marriage and Family Therapy
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Delgado, Erica Leigh, "The Influence of Client General Anxiety and Attachment Anxiety onAlliance Development in Couple Therapy" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 5962.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5962
Date Submitted
2016-07-01
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd8746
Keywords
therapy alliance, general anxiety, attachment anxiety
Language
english