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title: Measure
description: "| In Counselling and Psychotherapy a measure generally refers to a standardised way of gathering data/information about a specified psychological variable (these are very diverse and could be linked to characteristics of the person, for example extraversion, or a symptom,…"
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updated: "2021-11-06"
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# Measure

| In Counselling and Psychotherapy a measure generally refers to a standardised way of gathering data/information about a specified psychological variable (these are very diverse and could be linked to characteristics of the person, for example extraversion, or a symptom, for example anxiety). Broadly speaking these split into self-report and observer rated with many subsets in those two main groups. Typically the "dependent variable" in analyses of data. |
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#### Try also

Variable
Self-report measures
Observer ratings
Dependent variable

#### Chapters

Throughout the book really.

#### Dates

Created 6/11/21.