Anna von der Lippe

• Ph.D.
• Professor Emeritus at University of Oslo

There is a need for studies that advance our knowledge of therapist effectiveness, expanding the definition of what constitutes therapeutic success. In the present study, four aspects of clinical outcome were analyzed using a sample of highly experienced psychotherapists (mean years of experience as therapy practitioners = 30) who also serve as cli...

Objective: Within a mixed methods program of research the present study aimed at expanding knowledge about interactions in the initial therapeutic collaboration by combining focus on client interpersonal style and therapist contribution. Method: The study involves in-depth analyses of therapist–client interactions in the initial two sessions of goo...

The influence of maternal attachment on children's attachment and executive functioning skills through maternal sensitivity and decentered tutoring were studied in 40 middle-class mother-child dyads. Infant attachment security in the Strange Situation Procedure was related to maternal attachment security, evaluated with the Adult Attachment Intervi...

This study explored pretreatment patient characteristics associated with the level and growth of working alliance in therapies lasting up to 120 therapy sessions. The quality of working alliance was rated by both patients (N=201) and therapists (N=61) at Sessions 3, 12, and 20 and then at every 20th successive session. Patients reported that experi...

This study explored therapist characteristics associated with the development of working alliance in long-term therapies, up to 120 sessions. The quality of working alliance was rated by both patients (n = 201) and therapists (n = 61) at sessions 3, 12, 20 and every 20th successive session. Therapists' self-reported scores on the 'cold/detached' di...

Client-therapist interactions were studied in 14 positive-change (PC) and 14 negative-change or nonchange (NC) therapies with the same therapists and similar clients. Aggregated structural analysis of social behavior (SASB) scores showed increasingly dissimilar interaction styles between client and therapist in NC therapies. First-lag transition an...

Patterns of similarity between descriptions of partners and parents were analyzed to determine the differential importance of both parents for partner-choice in a sample of 76 married student and health-professional couples. The wives were grouped according to high parent-spouse similarity, low parent-spouse similarity, low mother-, high father-spo...

The study presents evidence that interpersonal and situational complexity, confrontation and conflict advance ego development in women. Thirty-two pregnant women of moderate education and from modest educational backgrounds were studied. Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test was used to measure ego development, and interviews and tests with the subj...

The relationship between Agency (self-assertion and independence) and Communion (nurturance and expressivity) and paranatal adjustment was studied in 32 primi-parious women. It was predicted that Agentic women would be ambivalent about the maternal role during pregnancy, but would adjust to the role subsequently. Communal women were anticipated to...

In this study, we examined the reliability and construct validity of the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior Introject Surface, Intrex long form A (SASB-IS; Benjamin, 1995) in 2 Norwegian samples. The fit of the 8 SASB-IS scales to the structural requirements of a circumplex model with relaxed equal spacing constraints was reasonably good in an...

This study examined the links among ego development and the ethics of care and justice in 144 Norwegian men and women, 15 to 48 years old, taking into consideration age, sex, education, and verbal intelligence. As expected, the relationship between Loevinger's model of ego development and care-based moral reasoning as measured with Skoe's Ethic of...

Thirty-nine adolescent girls, 16–19 years, were observed together with their 2 parents at a family discourse about moral and family issues on which they disagreed, to study interaction and conflict handling in families with daughters at different levels of ego development. Family interactions were coded by the Constraining and Enabling Coding Syste...

Late-adolescent females (N = 39) and their parents were studied, relating the quality of conflict negotiation in the family to their ego development and their dyadic communication patterns. Family communication was evaluated by the Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS; Hauser et al., 1985) from discussions in a revealed difference task. Ea...

As a developing country, Egypt and especially Cairo, is in a transitional phase between a traditional and a modern, education-based society and between traditional child-rearing values of passivity and obedience and new demands for academic competence. Education is seen by present day parents as the major vehicle for the future success and happines...

Individuation, ego development and family negotiation of conflict were studied in 27 Norwegian families with an adolescent daughter, 16–19 years, drawn from a larger sample to represent a rectangular distribution of ego development. Individuality and Connectedness (individuation) as conceptualized and scored by Condonet al. (1984) was modified and...

The study investigated 261 lottery winners of prizes of NKR 1 million (US $150,000) or more in the years 1987-91 in a postal survey. The modal Norwegian winners were middle-aged married men of modest education, living in small communities. Emotional reactions to winning were few, aside from moderate happiness and relief. Winners emphasized caution,...

Personality clusters of agency (independence, self-protection and self-assertion) and communion (interpersonal sensitivity and nurturant concern for the welfare of others) were studied in three generations of Norwegian women with the expectation that 1) daughters would use mothers rather than fathers as models for both clusters and 2) socialization...

The relationship between the Basic Character inventory (BCI) and Kragh's Defense Mechanism Test (DMT) was investigated. BCI is an inventory, measuring Oral, Obsessive and Hysterical character patterns, while DMT is a projective technique, measuring defense mechanisms by means of tachistoscopic exposures of pictures. Thirty-three pregnant women part...

The ECG findings before, during and following 81 spontaneous attacks of cluster headache in 24 patients have been recorded using a Holter cardiography system. No significant change in mean heart rate was found during attacks, when all attacks were considered as a group. Attacks which began when patients were awake differed from those which began du...

Distinguished between sex-role typing, socialization, and identification in 66 male and 69 female 30-40 yr old Ss using the Femininity and Socialization scales of the California Psychological Inventory. Ss were grouped according to their sex-role and socialization pattern: sex appropriate-socialized, sex appropriate-unsocialized, sex inappropriate-...

Evaluates the interpretations and criticisms offered by D. Miller (see record 1971-06296-001) and U. Bronfenbrenner (see record 1971-04219-001) of an earlier article by E. Siegelman, J. Block, J. H. Block, and A. van der Lippe (see record 1971-04232-001). Miller's view that clinical psychologists will not agree among themselves in defining optim...

Attempts to develop some understanding of the antecedents of psychological health from a major set of longitudinal studies. 171 adult Ss were described by means of the California Q set. These empirical descriptions were compared with an independent hypothetical Q description of the optimally adjusted personality. A number of measures were analyzed...