Interpersonal

Aliases

• interpersonal
• interpersonal relations
• relational style

Definition

Interpersonal gathers the variables that help read how the person imagines, seeks, fears, or organizes contact with other people. In this cluster, the main focus is on COP, AG, GHR:PHR, a:p, Food, SumT, human content, and interpersonal isolation.

Interpretation

• COP and AG show whether interpersonal scenes are imagined more cooperatively or more conflictually.
• GHR:PHR is a descriptive frequency ratio of Good Human Representations to Poor Human Representations. It does not by itself establish interpersonal functioning.
• SumT_inter and Food help estimate needs for closeness, support, or dependency.
• HumanCont and PureH show how much human representation is present in the record.
• PER and ISO_Index add information about self-reference, distance, and social isolation.

Cautions

• No interpersonal variable should be read by itself.
• High human content does not automatically mean healthy relationships.
• Interpersonal style changes meaning depending on affect, mediation, and ideation.

Cautions

• This cluster gives direction about expectations and organization of relatedness, not a complete explanation of relational life.
• It should be integrated with Core, Affect, Ideation, and Self Perception.

Variables to Review Together

• SumT
• a:p
• H ratio
• CDI
• DEPI

Cross References

• [Interpretation/Lower Section] Lower Section
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] COP
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] AG
• [Coding/GHR-PHR] GHR/PHR
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] a:p
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] Food
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] SumT
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] Human Content
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] Pure H
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] PER
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] Isolation Index
• [Interpretation/Core] SumT
• [Interpretation/Ideation] a:p
• [Interpretation/Lower Section/Self Perception] Self Perception