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title: Authenticity Scale (AS)
description: "A twelve item self-report therapy change scale created to reflect Carl Rogers' ideas of authenticity and its loss as central to distress/dyfunction and to recovery through therapy. #### Details The scale was first described in: Wood, A. M., Linley, P.…"
url: "https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/authenticity-scale-as/"
updated: "2022-01-26"
category: All OM book glossary entries
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# Authenticity Scale (AS)

A twelve item self-report therapy change scale created to reflect Carl Rogers' ideas of authenticity and its loss as central to distress/dyfunction and to recovery through therapy.

#### Details

The scale was first described in: Wood, A. M., Linley, P. A., Maltby, J., Baliousis, M., & Joseph, S. (2008). The authentic personality: A theoretical and empirical conceptualization and the development of the Authenticity Scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55(3), 385–399. [https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.55.3.385](https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.55.3.385). It has been widely used though there are perhaps surprisingly few reports on its use in therapies. It has three four-item subscales: Authentic Living, Self-Alienation and Accepting External Influence.

#### Try also ...

[Strathclyde Inventory](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/strathclyde-inventory/)
[Modality](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/modality/)

#### Chapters

Chapter 4

#### History

Created 31.x.21