SEX OF THE THERAPIST: AN EXPLORATION OF COMPETENCE ATTRIBUTIONS AS A FUNCTION OF THERAPIST'S GENDER.

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The present study was undertaken to explore the impact of therapist's gender upon competence attributions made by clients regarding the therapist. No predictions were made. Subjects were actual psychotherapy clients at one Windsor and one Detroit out-patient clinic, who were presented with a psychotherapy transcript labeled as conducted by a male or a female therapist, and then requested to fill out a short questionnaire rating the transcript therapist along a range of competency characteristics. Besides the label of the transcript, three other classification variables were employed: subject's sex, sex of the subject's actual therapist at the clinic, and whether or not the sexual labeling of the transcript was authentic (accurate). Dependent measures were the subject's ratings of the transcript therapist on the questionnaire items and item clusters derived from the questionnaire. Separate analyses were done for pooled and individual city samples. The primary findings were as follows. R

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