Relationship of personality characteristics to persistence in psychotherapy.

Matched 28 pairs of Ss, representing long- and short-term counseling cases, on age, sex, therapist, and time of requesting counseling service. These groups were compared on 15 personality needs as assessed by the EPPS. Means were significantly different on 4 variables. Longer term cases were higher on Exhibitionism and Heterosexuality. Short-term cases were higher on Order and Persistence. Means for long-term cases were more deviant from norm groups than were means of short-term cases on 11 of the 15 EPPS variables. (16 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)