Development of the therapeutic language coding system (SICOLENTE): Reliability and construct validity

Since the use of language is a core aspect of psychotherapy, its study requires instruments that allow for further research. The aim of this study is to present an observational instrument capable of analyzing the language used in psychotherapeutic settings, both by therapists and clients. The SICOL...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:PloS one Jg. 13; H. 12; S. e0209751
Hauptverfasser: Rodríguez-Morejón, Alberto, Zamanillo, Alberto, Iglesias, Gabriel, Moreno-Gámez, Alberto, Navas-Campaña, Desirée, Moreno-Peral, Patricia, Rodríguez-Arias, José Luis
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Public Library of Science 26.12.2018
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Schlagworte:
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Biomedical research
Categories
Health promotion
Humans
Language
Linguistics
Medicine and Health Sciences
Methods
Models, Theoretical
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - methods
Quantitative psychology
Reliability analysis
Research and Analysis Methods
Researchers
Social Sciences
Theory
Therapists
Three dimensional models
Validation studies
Verbal communication
New York
United States > US
Spain
ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Since the use of language is a core aspect of psychotherapy, its study requires instruments that allow for further research. The aim of this study is to present an observational instrument capable of analyzing the language used in psychotherapeutic settings, both by therapists and clients. The SICOLENTE instrument was applied to two different samples: The Three Approaches to Psychotherapy film and a naturalistic sample. 7710 utterances from 31 sessions (three from the demonstration film and 28 from a naturalistic setting) were coded. Two studies were conducted: in the first study, inter and intra coder reliability (dimension and category levels) and Generalizability theory analyzes were assessed, whilst in the second study, construct validity was tested with several hypotheses. The final instrument resulted in 20 categories with three dimensions: Conversational Act (7 categories), Therapeutic topic (6 categories) and Content (7 categories). The three dimensions showed excellent inter and intra coder reliability and the generalizability coefficients were excellent. Out of the 24 validity hypothesis proposed,19 were accepted. The finding suggests that the SICOLENTE is a reliable and valid instrument that can be applied to investigate the performance of various theoretical models. Its three dimensional structure gives it the flexibility to be able to carry out macroscopic or microscopic language research.
Bibliographie:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
content type line 23
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0209751