Building on the work by Barrett-Lennard (Carl Rogers’ helping system: Journey & substance. Sage, London <CitationRef CitationID="CR2">1998</CitationRef>) and Wood et al. (J Couns Psychol 55:385–399 <CitationRef CitationID="CR48">2008</CitationRef>), this study describes the development and validation of a theory-based measure of state authenticity at work, the Individual...</citationref></citationref>

The present article proposes a new method to assess distances between sequences of states, belonging to, for instance, event histories. It is based on the number of moves needed to turn one sequence into another sequence. This number of moves is standardized by relating it to the number of moves...