Studied atienta' decisions to continue treatment. Ss (N = 100) were adult, nonpsycgotic outpatients, who received individual psychotherapy at least once a week. The collected data were analyzed to identify the number of patients and the mean number of a d o m in each category of de endency and ego-strength. Findings indicated that there wm no dwect re&iomhip between patients' dependency scores and the number of sessions in sycho- thera y and between patients' ego-strength and attendance in psychotgerapy. The Xata indicated, however, that a statistically inverse relationship existed between dependency and e o-strength scores. The conclusion wm that neither dependenc nor ego-strengtfh are indicators for predicting patients' attendance in psychotgerapy, at least when the population is composed of adult, nonpsychotic Outpatients.
iort ord, cal~jmaa A relatively high percentage of psychiatric outpatients referred for psychotherapy discontinue their psychotherapeutic treatment after a few sessions (Garfield & Kurs, 1952; Rogers, 1960;). I n general, studies reported to date offer support to the relationship between factors of socioeconomic status, education, intelligence, and the number of sessions in psychotherapy and its outcome (Frank, Gliedman, Imber, Nash, & Stone, 1957; Garfield & Affleck, 1959; Imber, Nash, & Stone, 1955). There have been a number of other studies reported on the use of psychological tests as predictors of patients' Continuation or termination of psychotherapy with mixed findings (Auld & Eron, 1953;