Treating procrastination chat-based versus face-to-face: An RCT evaluating the role of self-disclosure and perceived counselor's characteristics

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Highlights:

• Face-to-face and chat-based counseling decreased symptoms of procrastination.

• Chat-based counselors were experienced as stricter and less attractive.

• Chat-based: The more trustworthy the counselor the better the treatment outcome.

• Chat-based: The more the client self-disclosed the better the treatment outcome.

• Do trustworthiness and self-disclosure facilitate symptom reduction in chats?

摘要

•Face-to-face and chat-based counseling decreased symptoms of procrastination.•Chat-based counselors were experienced as stricter and less attractive.•Chat-based: The more trustworthy the counselor the better the treatment outcome.•Chat-based: The more the client self-disclosed the better the treatment outcome.•Do trustworthiness and self-disclosure facilitate symptom reduction in chats?

论文关键词:E-Health,Computer mediated communication,Chat-based,Counseling,Trust,Self-disclosure

论文评审过程:Received 23 March 2015, Revised 14 July 2015, Accepted 23 August 2015, Available online 5 September 2015, Version of Record 5 September 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.027