Date of Award

1-1-2010

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

Program

Counseling Psychology

Content Description

1 online resource (xii, 113 pages) : illustrations

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Myrna L Friedlander

Committee Members

Alex Pieterse, Mark Muraven

Keywords

CRF-S, ELM, metaphor, persuasion, psychotherapy, social influence, Metaphor, Psychotherapy, Persuasion (Psychology)

Subject Categories

Counseling Psychology | Social Psychology

Abstract

Research suggests that metaphors can facilitate attitude change in psychotherapy. Based on social influence theory (Strong, 1968) and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM; Petty & Cacioppo, 1986) of persuasion, this analogue study tested the impact of metaphor use in the context of advice as a therapeutic intervention. In an experimental design, 138 adult participants were randomly assigned to observe a brief videotaped vignette in which a therapist's advice to a client either did or did not include a novel metaphor. After observing the video, participants completed a measure of therapist credibility, the Counselor Rating Form-Short Version (CRF-S; Corrigan & Schmidt, 1983), the Cognitive Involvement subscale from the Elaboration Likelihood Model Questionnaire (ELMQ-CI; Heppner et al., 1995), and rated the impact of the advice on a modified Tasks Impact subscale from the Session Impact Scale (SIS-TI; Elliott & Wexler, 1994).

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