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Relates measures of two treatment-experiences to the measures of personality-change as treatment-outcome. Sixteen of the fifty-eight volunteers for catharsis were randomly allocated to relaxation for comparison. Multivariate analysis of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) reveals that relaxation vs. catharsis are significantly different treatment-experiences. Univariate analysis, however, reveals significant differences on three PCI dimensions only, i.e., Negative Affect, Arousal, and Memory, with no significant differences for the self-altering features. Treatment-outcome analysis, pre-to-post, reveals significant increases in Positive Emotionality, Wellbeing, and Control, with significant decreases in Negative Emotionality, Stress Reaction, and Alienation, with no significant changes over the six-month follow-up no-treatment period. With PCI measures as the predictors for outcome, there are no unique factors between groups or common factors across groups to predict the variance on outcome measures. Suggests future research to implicate separate functions in personality as predictors for the treatment-experience and the treatment-outcome independently.

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Examines the relationship between fifty-eight participants' pre-treatment personality scores and subsequent ratings of either relaxation or catharsis. Participants completed the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire prior to their treatment workshops and the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory as the measure of their treatment-experience within the workshops. Multivariate Multiple Regression Analyses show personality as a significant predictor of treatment-experience. Univariate analyses reveal different aspects of the treatment-experience are predicted by different functions of personality described as either dispositional-mood or style. As a mood-measure, high Negative Emotionality predicts high Internal Dialogue and low Rationality. Style variables of high Absorption, low Constraint, low Harmavoidance, and high Social Closeness predict the self-altering features of the treatment-experiences. The implication is that personality, through the vicissitudes of mood and the stability of style, provides the structure for our experiences.