RT journal article
T1 Development and Validation of the Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness Attribution Questionnaire (PEAQ-12) in a Spanish Population
A1 Romero Moreno, Antonio Francisco
A1 Paramio Leiva, Alberto
A1 Cruces Montes, Serafín Jesús
A1 Zayas García, Antonio
A1 Gómez Carmona, Diego
A1 Merchán Clavellino, Ana
A2 Marketing y Comunicación
A2 Psicología
K1 attribution
K1 psychotherapist
K1 scale
K1 validation
K1 development
AB In recent decades, the study of psychotherapy effectiveness has been one of the pillars of clinical research because of its implication for therapeutic cure. However, although many studies have focused their interest on the patient's perception, there are no instruments oriented to the study of psychotherapists' attributions of effectiveness: to what factors psychotherapists attribute responsibility for the cure of the therapies they provide. The present study aimed to develop and validate an instrument for assessing the attribution of the effectiveness of psychotherapy in a population of 69 psychotherapists of different theoretical orientations. After an initial process of inter-judge content validation, 12 items were selected for validation in the targeted population, adequately fulfilling the quality requirements in the validity-reliability tests, and grouped into four factors after principal component analysis. These factors were as follows: (1) therapeutic alliance enhancers; (2) psychotherapist emotional characteristics; (3) therapy-specific variables; and (4) facilitators of patient engagement with therapy. This four-factor structure also showed a good fit for the fit indices checked in confirmatory factor analysis. In summary, we can conclude that the Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness Attribution Questionnaire (PEAQ-12) developed in our research can be helpful if tested on a larger number of individuals. The results can be replicated in other populations of psychotherapists
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2021
FD 2021-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27234
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27234
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026