Impact Message Inventory --Circumplex

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About the Impact Message Inventory—Circumplex

The Impact Message Inventory—Circumplex (IMI-C), by Donald J. Kiesler and Associates, is a self-report transactional inventory designed to measure a target person's interpersonal behavior. It was constructed on the assumption that the interpersonal or evoking behvior of one person (A) can be validly defined and measured by assessing the covert responses or "impact messages" of another person (B) who has interacted with or observed A.

The IMI-C is used to assess the interpersonal behvior of normal and maladjusted individuals by measuring the interpersonal consequences of their behavior as they interact with other persons. It serves to tap the automatic, relatively unconscious sets of emotional and other covert responses we have to others. Since the IMIC is both a self-report and a transactional inventory, it is the first of its kind in psychological measurement.

Uses of the IMI-C:

• Studies of psychotherapist-patient dyads
• Studies of maladjusted patient groups
• Studies of therapist-supervisor dyads and “parallel process”
• Interpersonal studies of personality and health psychology
• Interpersonal studies of physician-patient dyads

There are eight interpersonal styles measured by the IMI-C:

The IMI-C measures eight categories of interpersonal behavior arranged equidistantly around the circumference of the interpersonal circle. The eight scales are (in counterclockwise order around the circle beginning at the top center): dominant, hostile-dominant, hostile, hostile-submissive, submissive, friendly-submissive, friendly, and friendly-dominant. Each of the eight scales is measured by 7 items, yielding a total of 56 IMI-C items. The 7 items for each scale consist of mixtures of content measuring direct feelings, action tendencies, and perceived evoking messages. The table below presents examples of impact items for the eight IMI-C scales.

Example:

Therapeutic Metacommunication: Therapist Impact Disclosure as Feedback in Psychotherapy by Donald J. Kiesler

In Donald Kiesler’s Interpersonal Communication Therapy, metacommunicative feedback occurs when therapists disclose to patients inner, covert reactions (feelings, thoughts, fantasies, action tendencies) that they experience as directly evoked by a patient’s recurrent behaviors during their transactions. A companion to IMI-C, this resource is offered primarily to psychotherapists and supervisors who wish to understand the important principles that guide delivery of feedback to patients during individual psychotherapy.

Section I includes interpersonal communication definitions of maladjusted behavior and psychotherapy. Section II describes the distinctive advantages of metacommunication, Kiesler’s process-stage model, crucial “disengagement” techniques for use by therapists and supervisors, and ten principles that guide therapists’ impact feedback during psychotherapy sessions.

Therapeutic Metacommunication
Donald J. Kiesler

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