Impact Message Inventory - Circumplex

 

Authors: Donald J. Kiesler & James A. Schmidt

The Impact Message Inventory - Circumplex (IMI-C) helps clarify interpersonal transactions in any dyad (e.g. friends, teacher-student, employer-employee, therapist-client, physician-patient). It offers an innovative method of assessing interpersonal behavior by measuring the attitudes and feelings that the person being studied arouses in the respondent, such as dominance, hostility, submissiveness, and friendliness. The IMI-C is suitable for use with older adolescents and adults.

The IMI-C 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 behavior 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 behavior 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 IMI-C is both a self-report and a transactional inventory, it is the first of its kind in psychological measurement.

Copyright © 2006 by Donald J. Kiesler

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Features of the IMI-C

Purpose: Measure the attitudes and feelings that the person being studied arouses in the respondent

Length: 56 items

Average completion time: 10-15 minutes

Target population: Ages 16 and older

Administration: For individual or group administration

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.

Scales
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

Friendly-Dominant

IMI-C Profile

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Impact Message Inventory – Kreismodell (IMI)

Autor: Donald J. Kiesler

Das Impact Message Inventory - Kreismodell (IMI) hilft beim Klären zwischenmenschlicher Interaktion in jeder Art von Dyaden (z.B. Freunde, Lehrer-Student, Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer, Therapeut-Klient, Arzt-Patient). Das Inventar bietet eine innovative Methode zum Messen interpersonalen Verhaltens, indem die Handlungstendenzen und Gefühle erfasst werden, welche die zu beurteilende Person bei der Person auslöst, die den Fragebogen ausfüllt: Dominanz, Feindseligkeit, Unterwürfigkeit, und Freundlichkeit. Das IMI ist geeignet für den Gebrauch mit älteren Adoleszenten und Erwachsenen.

Das IMI ist ein Selbst-Einschätzungs-Inventar, das dazu geschaffen ist, das interpersonale Verhalten einer Zielperson zu erfassen. Zugrunde liegt die Auffassung, dass das interpersonale Verhalten bzw. Sender-Verhalten einer Person A valide definiert und erfasst werden kann, indem die nicht sichtbaren Reaktionen oder „impact messages“ (etwa: eintreffenden Botschaften) bei einer anderen Person B erfasst werden, die mit Person A interagiert oder sie beobachtet hat.

Das IMI wird benutzt, um das zwischenmenschliche Verhalten von normal oder schlecht adaptierten Menschen zu erfassen, indem die Konsequenzen ihres Verhaltens in der Interaktion mit anderen erfasst werden. Es sondiert dabei die automatisierten, relativ wenig bewussten emotionalen und anderen verdeckten Reaktionsmuster, die wir anderen gegenüber haben. Das IMI ist gleichzeitig ein Selbst- und eine Fremdbeurteilungsmessmittel, das erste Messmittel dieser Art.

Copyright 2006 by Donald J. Kiesler

Eigenschaften des IMI

Zweck: Messung der Handlungstendenzen und Emotionen, welche die zu beurteilende Person bei der ausfüllenden Person auslöst

Länge: 56 Fragen

Durchschnittliche Bearbeitungsdauer: 10-15 Minuten

Zielpopulation: 16 und älter (beurteilende und beurteilte Person)

Verwendung: individuell oder in Gruppen

Nutzung des IMI

  • Studien zu Psychotherapeut-Patienten-Dyaden
  • Studien zu fehlangepassten Patientengruppen
  • Studien zu Therapeut-Supervisor-Dyaden und „parallelen Prozessen“
  • Interpersonale Studien zur Persönlichkeits- und Gesundheitspsychologie
  • Interpersonale Studien zu Arzt-Patienten-Dyaden

Skalen
Das IMI erfasst acht Kategorien von zwischenmenschlichem Verhalten, die gleichabständig um den interpersonalen Kreis herum angeordnet sind. Die acht Skalen sind, oben begonnen und im Gegenuhrzeigersinn:

Dominant
(DOM)

Feindselig-Dominant
(HOS-DOM)

Feindselig
(HOS)

Feindselig-Submissiv
(HOS-SUB)

Submissiv
(SUB)

Freundlich-Submissiv
(FRI-SUB)

Freundlich
(FRI)

Freundlich-Dominant
(FRI-DOM)

IMI-C Profile

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s. dazu:

Caspar, F., Berger, T., Fingerle, H., Werner, M. (2016). IMI-D. Die deutsche Version des Impact Message Inventory (IMI) Psychotherapie im Dialog 17(04): 9 (Kurzversion) Langversion: Psychotherapie im Dialog 17(04): e1–e11.

F. Caspar, F., Fingerle, H., Werner, M. (2016). IMI Impact Message Inventory. In: Geue, K., Strauß, B., & Brähler, E. (Hrsg.). Diagnostische Verfahren in der Psychotherapie (3. Aufl.), S. 280-283. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

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