How to score an interpersonal circumplex: The Structural Summary Method

This video shows you how to decompose eight circumplex octant scores or correlations into four parameters that convey distinct and useful information about interpersonal functioning. For further reading, check out: Pincus, A.L. & Hopwood, C.J. (2025). The Interpersonal Situation: Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, assessment, and psychotherapy. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/interpersonal-situation Zimmermann, J., & Wright, A. G. (2017). Beyond description in interpersonal construct validation: Methodological advances in the circumplex structural summary approach. Assessment, 24(1), 3-23.