This therapy analogue study dealt with the interaction of client personality (dominance-Dom) and therapist directive versus nondirective techniques in producing client resistance. Forty High-Dom and 40 Low-Dom undergraduate male 5s, while role-playing client problems, were required to make choices between 32 pairs of high-and low-resistant client responses following therapist statements. Results showed that nondirective techniques elicited most client resistance, Low-Dom 5s tended to give more resistant responses, and both effects were most pronounced when Ss assumed hostile roles. The S anxiety was also found indirectly to be related to resistance.

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