M.A. (Counselling Psychology) / The "aim of this study was (1) to compare three different procedures of evaluation used with the "Group Assessment of Interpersonal Traits" (GAIT) in terms of reliability, and (2) to assess the strength of the relationships between the different measures of empathy and selfactualization and the quality of interpersonal relationships, to achieve a tentative indication of the validity of the three evaluation procedures. From a survey of the literature it is apparent that very little agreement exists as to the exact meaning of the construct empathy, and that there is need of a valid, reliable and economical measure of empathic ability. Against this background an evaluation procedure based on Barrett-Lennard's (1981) conceptualization of empathy as a cyclical process and Goodman's (1972) GAIT-procedure was developed. Eighty-nine third year psychology students were used as subjects. They were randomly divided into 12 subgroups. Three groupings of four subgroups were exposed to three different GAIT evaluation procedures, which were those of Goodman (972), Van Wyk (978) and one that was developed for the purpose of this study. The "Personal Orientation Inventory" (POI) and the "Personal, Home, Social and Formal Relations Questionnaire" (PHSF) were respectively used as measures of selfactiJalization and interpersonal relationships.