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Following a session, clients completed measures of anxiety and depressive symptoms (7\u2010day recall), RR, WA (task, goal and bond), and SQ. A covariate\u2010adjusted path model was performed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>PD was associated with weaker RR and poorer task agreement, but not with goal or bond. RR was positively associated with all WA dimensions. When predicting SQ simultaneously, task showed the largest unique association, with smaller unique contributions from goal, bond, and RR; PD also retained a small direct association. Bootstrap decomposition indicated that indirect associations through task accounted for most of the distress\u2013SQ link, with additional indirect associations through bond and an RR\u2010only pathway. Task effects reflected both a direct distress\u2010to\u2010task pathway and a serial distress\u2010to\u2010RR\u2010to\u2010task pathway.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study suggested task agreement as a central correlate of SQ when clients are distressed but cannot establish temporal ordering or causality.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/papt.70049","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,17]],"date-time":"2026-03-17T04:56:07Z","timestamp":1773723367000},"page":"751-764","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["How recent psychological distress relates to session quality in psychotherapy: The mediating roles of the real relationship and working alliance"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"99","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4807-7184","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alberto","family":"Stefana","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Ohio State University  Columbus Ohio USA"},{"name":"Center for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health National Institute of Health  Rome Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_12_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/h0085885"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_3_1","first-page":"13","volume-title":"The working alliance: Theory, research, and practice","author":"Bordin E. 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