Due to their predictive abilities, therapist interpersonal behaviour is of great relevance for psychotherapy. However, there is a lack of knowledge about its stability inside but also outside of the therapy room within and between therapists. The current study investigates interpersonal behaviour of trainee therapists (N = 20) as perceived by four patients each suffering from generalized anxiety disorder and three closely related persons of every therapist (close others). Investigating repeated measures, four patients per therapist completed the Impact Message Inventory (IMI; Kiesler, 1987) three times over the course of their cognitive behavioural therapy. Furthermore, the IMI was completed by three close others at one assessment time. Therapist interpersonal behaviour was perceived as more friendly and less submissive when evaluated by close others compared to patients. Using a multilevel approach, our results indicate that therapists' interpersonal behaviour was perceived considerably stable across patients and over the course of treatment, and there is considerable uniformity of the IMI evaluations in respect to the particular subscales within and between therapists. Our results highlight the potential similarities of observer-based habitual therapists' interpersonal behaviour inside and outside of the therapy room.

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治疗师的人际行为如何被他们的患者感知并接近他人：一项纵向和跨情境研究

由于他们的预测能力，治疗师的人际行为与心理治疗有很大的相关性。然而，对于其在治疗室内和治疗室内外的稳定性以及治疗师之间的稳定性缺乏了解。目前的研究调查了实习治疗师的人际行为（N = 20）由四名患有广泛性焦虑症的患者和每位治疗师的三名密切相关的人（亲密的其他人）感知。调查重复测量，每位治疗师的四名患者在他们的认知行为治疗过程中完成了 3 次影响信息清单 (IMI; Kiesler, 1987)。此外，IMI 是由三个亲密的人在一个评估时间完成的。与患者相比，当被亲密的人评估时，治疗师的人际行为被认为更友好，更不顺从。使用多层次方法，我们的结果表明，治疗师的人际行为在患者和整个治疗过程中被认为相当稳定，对于治疗师内部和治疗师之间的特定分量表，IMI 评估具有相当大的一致性。我们的结果强调了基于观察者的习惯性治疗师在治疗室内外的人际行为的潜在相似性。