Transactional Analysis Ego States Research Articles

Investigation of the relationship between transactional analysis ego states and treatment compliance of individuals with substance use disorder

ABSTRACT Aim This study was conducted to examine the relationship between transactional analysis ego states and treatment compliance of individuals diagnosed with SUD(substance use disorder). Materials and Methods This cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted between January and June 2018 with 132 individuals diagnosed with SUD at the a Mental Health and Diseases Hospital AMATEM (Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research and Treatment Center) unit. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Ego States Scale and the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale. SPSS program was used to evaluate the data. Results Mean scores of the Ego States Scale subscales of the participants were 0.16 ± 0.02 for the Critical Parent subscale, 0.23 ± 0.01 for the Nurturing Parent subscale, 0.21 ± 0.01 for the Adult subscale, 0.19 ± 0.02 for the Adapted Child subscale and 0.19 ± 0.27 for the Natural Child subscale. The mean score of the participants’ Medication Adherence Scale was found to be 1.66 ± 0.27. No statistically significant relationship was found between treatment compliance and ego states (p > .005). Conclusion In this study, it was found that the participants mainly used Adult and Nurturing Parent ego states and their level of treatment compliance was moderate.

The Relationship Between Young Amateur Footballers’ Ego States and Accordance Levels Based on Their Positions In The Team and Their Performance: Samsun Province Sample

The aim of this thesis was to investigate the relationship between ego states based on Transactional Analysis (TA) and accordance levels based on team positions of footballers playing in elite U-19 young amateur league in Samsun province and their performance. The sample of the study consisted of 183 amateur football players playing in the league. For this purpose, TA Ego Status Scale, Personal Information Form and Performance Evaluation Scale were used as data collection instruments. One-way ANOVA and Tukey HSD test were used to examine the differences among the total scores of the players’ ego states (Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Natural/Free Child and Adapted Child) for the various variables (the football players’ positions on pitch, their performance etc). In addition to this, the correlation between the ego status (observed) of football players and ego status of their positions (expected) was estimated by using Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that the correlation between amateur team players' ego status based on transactional analysis and their positions in the team were only positively correlated with the adult ego status; however no statistically significant relationship was found between performance of football players and their ego status. In conclusion, unlike the results of studies showing that athletes' personality traits and psychological skills affect their sporting performance, this result of this study are in parallel with the results of studies which showed no a important correlation between athletes’ personality traits and their sporting performance. For this reason, it is necessary to do more studies that different research methods and scales should be used on different sample groups in teams and individual sports based on TA Ego States.

Profilaktyka agresji w pracy nauczyciela w perspektywie edukacyjnej analizy transakcyjnej

<p class="Default"><span>Autorka, wskazując na wyniki badań dotyczące zjawiska agresji dzieci i młodzieży, przedstawia konieczność podejmowania przez szkoły bardziej skutecznych działań w zakresie profilaktyki agresji. W tym celu proponuje wykorzystanie analizy transakcyjnej jako teorii psychologicznej i jej zastosowań w edukacji jako praktyki pedagogicznej. Omawia wybrane koncepcje z zakresu edukacyjnej analizy transakcyjnej (stany Ja, transakcje, pozycje życiowe, znaki rozpoznania, dyskontowanie i pasywność) i ich powiązania z problemem agresywności. Ukazuje, w jaki sposób wiedza na temat tych koncepcji może pomoc nauczycielom w rozumieniu źródeł agresywnych zachowań uczniów, wyborze reakcji adekwatnych do sytuacji oraz kierunków działań profilaktycznych. W artykule został przedstawiony jedynie zarys problematyki, aby przedstawić potencjał edukacyjnej analizy transakcyjnej jako podstawy pracy pedagogicznej nauczycieli i wychowawców, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem profilaktyki agresji. </span></p>

Mapping transactional analysis to clinical leadership models.

Leaders in today's NHS face the unenviable task of reconciling rising demand, frozen resource allocation and increasing accountability. As the NHS itself stands at the nexus of an unstable political and socioeconomic landscape, its future success relies largely on its ability to nurture excellence, to encourage open communication within and across health-care teams, and to inspire its workforce through exemplary leadership and followership. Key to these endeavours are clinicians on the 'shop floor', whose daily interactions with patients and staff help to shape prevailing culture and drive progress through quality improvement and leadership initiatives. This article considers how transactional analysis can be incorporated into professional development to help doctors develop insight into and optimize the use of different communication styles. The authors propose that a working knowledge of the transactional analysis ego state model can enhance effective communication, leadership and followership within and across health-care teams, with a view to optimizing patient outcomes and workforce interactions.

TA and Values as the Predictors of Loneliness among Adolescents

Aim of this study is to examine loneliness in terms of Transactional Analysis ego states, life positions and human values among adolescents. The sample of the study consists of 683 adolescents (405 famele-278 male), who were studying various high schools of Pamukkale and Merkezefendi central districts of Denizli city and accepting to participate in the research voluntarily, during 2014-2015 education year. The participants of the research were administered “UCLA Loneliness Scale”, “Transactional Analysis Ego States Scale”, “Life Positions Scale” and “Human Values Scale”. Data analysis were conducted with SPSS 16.0 statistical package program in .05 and .01 significance levels. All datas were analyzed by correlation and regression. The study results show that, Transactional Analysis ego states, life positions and human values play a role in loneliness level among adolescents. Implications of these findings are discussed and suggestions are presented within the context of literature.

Altruism among University Students: A Study of Transactional Analysis Ego States and Life Satisfaction

The aim of this study is to determine whether or not university students’ Transactional Analysis (TA) Ego States and life satisfaction predict their altruistic behaviors. Accordingly, Altruistic Be...

Examining the Differences in Intrinsic Motivation and its Interactions Based on Ego States Among B - School Students in Coimbatore

Management Institutes are striving hard to create workspaces that ensure a greater understanding, better relationships and a happier environment through improved individual, team and institutional performance. This could be attained by matching the students' needs and motives with those of the institutional requirements. However, the greatest challenge is the inability or the lack of desire to predict their needs and motives. Researchers in behavioral sciences have created various models that can help administrators in redesigning pedagogy, develop effective teams, and motivate staff to deliver outstanding results. This article further contributes to behavioral sciences by presenting a simple, three-level typology model to classify the personality of students based on Transactional Analysis ego states and predicting the Intrinsic Motivation factors that best matches with the ego state.

Examining the Differences in Intrinsic Motivation and its Interactions Based on Ego States Among B - School Students in Coimbatore

Management Institutes are striving hard to create workspaces that ensure a greater understanding, better relationships and a happier environment through improved individual, team and institutional performance. This could be attained by matching the students' needs and motives with those of the institutional requirements. However, the greatest challenge is the inability or the lack of desire to predict their needs and motives. Researchers in behavioral sciences have created various models that can help administrators in redesigning pedagogy, develop effective teams, and motivate staff to deliver outstanding results. This article further contributes to behavioral sciences by presenting a simple, three-level typology model to classify the personality of students based on Transactional Analysis ego states and predicting the Intrinsic Motivation factors that best matches with the ego state.

Mastering 'The Tolstoy Effect': a research exercise in linguistic philosophy

The research design and methodology are outlined in order to contextualise the key aspects of the process for developing the Temple Index of Functional Fluency (TIFF), namely the harnessing of the creativity of many people and the collaborative style of working with ongoing piloting and evaluation. The social nature of this process is shown to demand linguistic exploration of shared meanings at every stage. The results of the data analyses are presented to demonstrate how the quantitative data provided the essential framework for the qualitative search for the evidence of meaningfulness that supports and illustrates the validity and reliability of TIFF. This search for evidence can be seen to illuminate, and be illuminated by, transactional analysis ego state theory and is characterised by 'The Tolstoy Effect'.

Using Winnie the Pooh Characters to Illustrate the Transactional Analysis Ego States

Utilizing creative techniques within the counseling session makes the content come alive for both counselor and client. When combined with a solid theoretical foundation, creative metaphors provide a powerful tool for empowering clients and helping them sustain change. This article describes a creative way to use the Winnie the Pooh characters to illustrate the Transactional Analysis ego states. Case examples are included.

Personification of Death, as Seen in Adjective Check List Descriptions, among Funeral Service and University Students

One hundred twenty-nine undergraduate psychology students at a large urban university and 55 students at a college of funeral service completed the Death Anxiety Questionnaire (Conte, Weiner,&Plutchik, 1982), the Revised Death Anxiety Scale (Thorson&Powell, 1994), a nine question measure of belief in an afterlife (Daws, 1980), and used the 300-item Adjective Check List (ACL; Gough&Heilbrun, 1980) to describe what death might be like if personified as a human character in a play. Three Affective Meaning scores, five Transactional Analysis ego state scores, five Five Factor Model scores, and a Sex-Stereotype Index score were calculated based on ACL descriptions of the character of death. Lower death anxiety was associated with more positive ACL descriptions of death in both samples; however, belief in an afterlife was associated with differences in death personification only among university students. Men described death as higher on the Adult ego state than did women. In addition African Americans described death as a more positive character than did European Americans. Similarly, funeral service students described death as feminine, favorable, strong, but not active, more like a Nurturing Parent, and high on Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability; whereas, university students described death as masculine, neutral on Favorability, more like a Critical Parent, and low on Agreeableness and Emotional Stability.

Study on the Ego states and Coping Style of Nursing Students

The purpose of this study is to analyze the type of ego states and stress coping style on female college students who are in the course of nursing study. This study is performed in the view of Transactional Analysis and designed to scrutinize descriptive correlations between the type of ego states and stress coping style. The subject is consists of 144 freshmen and sophomore, 138 junior and senior students group, who are students of K nursing college located in Seoul. The sampling investigation period is on Sept. 14, 2002 to Oct. 26, 2002. The measuring instrument used for Transactional Analysis ego state is 50 items Ego-gram research paper devised by Dusay(1997). For studying coping style, Folkman & Lazarus's measurement(1984) was adopted, which is translated and modified by Han, and Oh,(1990). Statistic average and standard deviation were generated by using SPSS PC+, t-test and Pearson correlation. The results were as follows: 1) In the type of ego states on both groups(lower group : freshmen, sophomore upper group : junior, senior) indicated the arithmetic apex NP(maximum value), then the point A was high and the data made a down slope to point AC. In the comparison to type of ego states between two groups, only at point CP, the data value of upper year students represented higher than that of lower year ones by C(t=2.28, p=.023). In the psychological energy level of ego states, both groups indicated average level.2) Stress coping style of whole students were highly and affirmatively dedicated to research. Consecutive consequences follow like this(high to low) : the central point of problem, search for social support, hopeful aspect and indifference. Especially hopeful aspect(t=.67, p=.05), relaxation of tension(t=-2.16, p=.03) made significant difference each other in the view of arithmetic calculation 3) While verifying coping style in terms of ego states level between lower and upper students group, In type CP, high level ego states group indicated significant difference on stress coping style area than low leveled group and made such sequences as the central point of problem, hopeful aspect, search for social support, positive interest and relaxation of tension. In type NP, sequences such as the central point of problem, search for social support, positive interest and relaxation of tension were emerged with little differences. In type A, the central point of problem, positive interest and relaxation of tension. In type FC, hopeful aspect, search for social support, positive interest and relaxation of tension. In type AC, hopeful aspect and indifference were derived significantly different(p

The Effects of Communication Skills Training on Ego States and Problem Solving

This article describes an experimental study carried out to test the effectiveness of a communication skills program on transactional analysis ego states and the problem solving scores of prospective teachers. The experimental group participated in training, whereas the control group had no training. The Adjective Check List and Problem Solving Inventory were applied to both the experimental and control groups before and after treatment. Analysis of covariance test results showed that Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, and Adapted Child scores and problem solving scores changed significantly in the experimental group. In addition, one-way analysis of variance and paired t tests were used to test the durability of change in the experimental group; this showed that results remained stable over 15 weeks.

Transactional analysis ego state functioning, psychological distress, and client change.

Transactional analysis ego state functioning, psychological distress, and client change.

Sex stereotypes in the united states revisited: 1972?1988

This was a 1988 replication of a sex stereotype study conducted in 1972. The new subjects were 100 university students who individually responded to each of the 300 items of the Adjective Check List by indicating whether it was more frequently associated with men or with women or was not differentially associated. For each item, an index score (0 to 100) was computed with high scores indicating association with males, low scores indicating association with females and scores in the mid-range indicating that the items were not sex stereotyped. The correlation between the 1972 and 1988 arrays of index scores across all 300 items was .90. No changes were found across the sixteen years in the affective meaning (Favorability, Strength and Activity) associated with the male and female stereotypes. In contrast, an analysis of the stereotypes in terms of Transactional Analysis ego states indicated that, across the time interval, the male stereotype decreased in Adult and Nurturing Parent and increased in Free Child, while the female stereotype decreased in Free Child and showed a trend toward an increase in Adult. It was concluded that while there had been some minor qualitative changes, there was no evidence that the two stereotypes had become less differentiated across the sixteen year period.

Construct Validity of Transactional Analysis Ego States: Free Child, Adult, and Critical Parent

Transactional Analysis (TA) theory describes personality in terms of the relative strength of five functional ego states. Williams and Williams (1980) have devised a method for assessing ego-state ...

The Assessment of Transactional Analysis Ego States Via the Adjective Checklist

Transactional Analysis (TA) conceptualizes personality in terms of five functional ego states: Critical Parent (CP), Nurturing Parent (NP), Adult (A), Free Child (FC), and Adapted Child (AC). The present investigation was designed to develop a procedure for the assessment of the relative strength of ego states from the responses of persons who are not familiar with TA theory. Fifteen TA experts assigned ego-state ratings to the 300 items of the Adjective Check List (ACL) with high interjudge agreement being found. Using the judges' mean raft rigs, a system was developed for obtaining ego-state scores for any selected set of ACL adjectives. The use of the system was illustrated by its application to the ACL self-descriptions of 100 university students which were analyzed in terms of "egograms" in which the five functional ego states were expressed relative to one another. A test-retest study involving an additional 154 students demonstrated stable individual differences in ego-state scores. Mean egograms of female and male students did not differ from one another but showed appreciable differences from the expert judges' ratings of the "psychologically healthy person." The potential Usefulness of the procedure in clinical practice and in testing TA theory is discussed.

Measures of Transactional Analysis Ego States for Nurses

Factor analysis of 432 registered nurses' responses to three measures of the transactional analysis ego states of parent, adult, and child were run in order to develop shorter scales tailored to nurses. The analysis resulted in four 10-item scales labeled parent, adult, adapted child, and natural child. Reliability coefficients ranged from .79 to .85. Interscale correlations ranged from -.20 to .18. Means, standard deviations, and percentile scores were presented for each scale. Implications for nursing research are discussed.