Level of dominance and its relation to therapeutic outcome

ABSTRACT

In the present study it was hypothesized that therapist's level of dominance has effect on number of their patients being Remainers or Terminators in therapy. In order to test this hypothesis the Personality Research Form-E alongwith a questionnaire prepared was given to 33 student psychotherapists of six male therapist's and 27 female therapists of the Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi. The therapist's were divided into 2 groups, depending on their high or low scores. Mann Whitney U. Test was applied in order to get statistical significance of the results. It was found that therapist's level of dominance have no effect on having more patients as remainers and terminators