MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENTS OF CLIENT REACTANCE

In this study the authors attempted to determine the motivational personality characteristics associated with psychological reactance. A total of 251 undergraduate psychology students took the Therapeutic Reactance Scale(TRS), the Questionnaire for Measuring Psychological Reactance (QMPR), and the Personality Research Form (PRF). Results show a personality pattern of the psychologically reactant person as defensive, aggressive, dominant, autonomous, and nonaffiliative. Implications of this pattern for resistance in counseling are discussed.