Abstract
The process of developing the final version of the Impasses, Ego state and Drama Triangle Role Inventory (in short - ZESUI) presented in this article involved repeated iterations over four years. The scale is based on the Transactional analysis theory of personality, interpersonal styles and pathology. The statistical method used in the process of the instrument development, with specific attempts to increase the factor saturation and items internal consistency is exploratory factor analysis, more specifically methods of principal component analysis. The questions within the inventory include the relevant aspects of the diagnosis (assessment) of the Ego state, Impasses and Roles profiles. It consists of 62 items which measure three types of Impasses: Type I, II and III, nine Functional Ego States and three Drama Triangle Roles: Rescuer, Persecutor and Victim.
Highlights
The most significant objection to Transactional Analysis (TA), as well as to some other therapeutic schools of thought, is the lack of serious scientific and evaluation studies that could serve as guidelines for overcoming former weaknesses of clinical observations
Research so far has shown that highly accentuated ego states of the Negative Adapted Child and Negative Nurturing Parent correlate with pathological personality tendencies (Thorne & Faro, 1980; Kron, 1988)
2nd EATA TA Research Conference 2012: Proceedings published as International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research Vol 4 No 1, January 2013 www.ijtar.org page
Summary
The most significant objection to Transactional Analysis (TA), as well as to some other therapeutic schools of thought, is the lack of serious scientific and evaluation studies that could serve as guidelines for overcoming former weaknesses of clinical observations. The main difference between TA and other kinds of psychotherapy is that TA explains a person structurally, and functionally. Transactional Analysis, in a diagnostic and therapeutic sense, in contrast to many clinical theories that deal with the internal world of an individual, puts emphasis on the functional analysis of behaviour (appropriate words, gestures, postures, tones, facial expression) defined in terms of the categories of the “here and ”. Research so far has shown that highly accentuated ego states of the Negative Adapted Child and Negative Nurturing Parent correlate with pathological personality tendencies (Thorne & Faro, 1980; Kron, 1988). The egogram and the scale of interpersonal exchange can, as research suggests, be employed to follow the effects of psychotherapeutic work (Petrović, 1981)
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