ABSTRACT.
Production
of meaning in the dialogical self emerges from the movement and
combination of
I-positions. In that sense, psychotherapy is a preferential setting for
such
processes to occur. Dialogical Valence (DiaV) is suggested as a novel
measure
of the promptness of I-positions to combine in the dialogical self.
Derived
from the Personal Position Repertoire, DiaV is intended to reflect the
dynamics
of the dialogical self. The study compared people under psychological
treatment
with controls on DiaV and neuroticism. Neuroticism did not yield
significant
differences, whereas DiaV was lower in the psychotherapy group.
Findings are
discussed in terms of the potential movements of the dialogical self in
psychotherapy. The DiaV measure allows for data summarizing,
between-subjects
comparisons and assessment of psychotherapeutic process otherwise
impracticable
with standard dialogical self approaches.
Keywords:
dialogical
self, dialogical valence, psychotherapy, personal position repertoire
(PPR)
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