The Impact Message Inventory: A new measure of relationship in counseling/psychotherapy and other dyads.

Examining nonspecific relationship factors in the behavioral treatment of seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) adolescents: An interpersonal communications approach

“…This could be accomplished by using an instrument designed to assess impact messages, such as the Impact Message Inventory (IMI; Perkins et al, 1979). By learning to pay attention to the impact message they experience when interacting with a student (i.e., how they feel like responding to the pupil), teachers can focus on disengaging more effectively, responding in ways that do not complement the adolescent's maladaptive interpersonal style.…”

“…Beier, 1966). The component which describes Ms. Jones' thoughts and feelings as a consequence of Johnny's characteristic evoking message style (i.e., how she feels like responding to him) is called the impact message (Kiesler et al, 1976;Perkins, Kiesler, Anchin, Chirico, Kyle, & Federman, 1979). The impact of Johnny's hostile and submissive communication on his teacher, then, pulls for Ms. Jones to respond to her student in a complementary fashion and send back hostile and dominant evoking messages of her own.…”

“…. Assessing Evoking and Impact Messages Kiesler et al (1976) reviewed the literature on semantic meaning, nonverbal behavior, and interpersonal communication and concluded that evoking and impact messages could be assessed more precisely using the methodology of an interpersonal circumplex (Carson, 1969;Kiesler, 1982;Leary, 1957;Lorr & McNair, 1963;McLemore & Benjamin, 1979;Perkins et al, 1979;Wiggins, 1979Wiggins, , 1980Wiggins, , 1982.…”

Integrating leadership: The leadership circumplex

“…Operationalizing the octants of the interpersonal circumplex has posed great challenges for scholars. Nonetheless, a successful operationalization has been accomplished quite a number of times (e.g., the Interpersonal Adjectives Scale-IAS, Wiggins, 1979; the Interpersonal Check List-ICL, LaForge & Suczek, 1955;Leary, 1957; the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-IIP, Horowitz, Rosenberg, Baer, Uren˜o, & Villasen˜or, 1988; the Impact Message Inventory-IMI, Perkins et al, 1979).…”

The effects of classroom observation by principals on conference climate and classroom performance of teachers

“…Perkins et al used the behavioral descriptions of the fifteen inter personal styles in Lorr et al (30) and Lorr and McNair's (31, 32, 33) In terpersonal Behavior Inventory (IBI) as the point of departure for the de velopment of the parallel-structured IMI. From there, individual items forForm I of the IMI were generated ... in successive steps by independently reading each of the fifteen IBI paragraph descriptions, each author imagining he was presently interacting with that 'person', focusing internally on the immediate behavioral, affective, and cognitive reactions he experienced, and recording his actions in response to sentence stems in the form, 'He makes me feel '(40).Following a check for interrater reliability and some pruning for re dundancies, a final item pool of two-hundred fifty-nine items (Form I-IMI) was administered to four-hundred and fifty-one introductory psychology un dergraduate students. The sample was primarily female (68.7 percent), Cau casian (76.9 percent), between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six (89.1 percent), and from homes with incomes of $10,000 or more.…”