title: Dependency and ego-strength as indicators of patients' attendance in psychotherapy.
abstract: Studied patients' decisions to continue treatment. Ss (N = 100) were adult, nonpsychotic outpatients, who received individual psychotherapy at least once a week. The collected data were analyzed to identify the number of patients and the mean number of sessions in each category of dependency and ego-strength. Findings indicated that there was no direct relationship between patients' dependency scores and the number of sessions in psychotherapy and between patients' ego-strength and attendance in psychotherapy. The data indicated, however, that a statistically inverse relationship existed between dependency and ego-strength scores. The conclusion was that neither dependency nor ego-strength are indicators for predicting patients' attendance in psychotherapy, at least when the population is composed of adult, nonpsychotic outpatients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D010551:Personality; D011613:Psychotherapy