Difficulties in the development of satisfactory measures of adjustment level characterize part of the criterion problem faced by researchers investigating therapeutic processes. This paper is concerned with one aspect of the utility of the Q technique as a measure of adjustment.The comparison of self and ideal sorts has received much recent attention. Typically, the correlation between S's Q sorts for his concepts of "self" and "ideal self" is used as an index of adjustment level. A low or negative correlation is assumed to indicate an unsatisfactory level of adjustment, and changes in the magnitude of correlation from before to after therapy are thus assumed to reflect changes in level of adjustment.Dymond (2, p. 84) has pointed out that the procedure may be invalid due to the contamination of posttherapy sorts by the therapist's expressions of satisfaction with the patient's progress. Contamination of the therapist's ratings of success in treatment, often used as criteria, may also occur as a function of invalid "well-adjusted" self-references on the part of the patient.

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