In order to test a hypothesized relationship between depression and two objective measures of verbal participation in group therapy, interaction recording was done for each session of two ongoing therapy groups over a 2-mo. period. Each patient, at the end of each group session, filled out the Depression Adjective Checklist. Correlations between checklist scores and objective interaction measures for individual patients and for groups over sessions were not significant. The negative findings were interpreted as evidence that within-session characteristics of a group and the therapist have more influence on interaction patterns than do moderate fluctuations in affect level.
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