动机不一致预测心理治疗中的后续心理困扰：三项样本的个体内部证据

Objective: Motivational incongruence refers to insufficient satisfaction of individual motives in interaction with the environment and is assumed to contribute to psychological distress and psychopathology when prolonged. This study examined reduced motivational incongruence as a potential change mechanism in psychotherapy by testing whether within-person decreases in motivational incongruence predict subsequent decreases in general psychological distress. Method: Analyses were based on three psychotherapy samples from two randomized controlled trials and one observational dataset collected in