The study investigated the construct validity of the Rorschach space response by factor analyzing the stress-coping reactions to highly stressful conditions. Self-report reactions to stress of 173 medical students measured on the Habits of Nervous Tension showed that space responding loaded highest on a factor identified as "anger affect" and secondarily loaded negatively on a factor identified as "regressive withdrawal." Findings were consistent with earlier results for space response on validity.
The commonality between the findings of the Repression-Sensitization Scale research and the factor structure of the Wiggins MMPI Content Scales suggested the use of these scales for further investigation of Repression-Sensitization Scale constructs. As predicted, Repression-Sensitization was found highly related to those Content Scales describing psychological maladjustment, ego control, and somatic distress. Religious Fundamentalism and Femininity content scales were found unrelated to Repression-Sensitization. Male sensitizers showed a tendency to score higher on the Authority Conflict Scale than female sensitizers. Subjects were 50 male college students and 50 female students.
Study of the internal structure of the R-S Scale failed to support a finding of unidimensionality or bipolarity, as theory suggests. A factor analysis of the item matrix revealed a poorly defined multifactor structure that contained five relatively weak unipolar factors (N = 200). Guttman's Reproducibility and the Kuder-Richardson Coefficient adjusted for test length similarly failed to support the presence of a unifactor structure. The relatively high Coefficient of Dimensionality was rejected as evidence of unidimensionality given the uncertainty over what psychometric properties this index reflects. The high proportion of S-item interaction variance showed considerable equivocal item content, which suggested marked error factors due to Ss' idiosyncratic interpretation of items.
Data from the group-administered Rorschach for 77 medical students showed that subjects who gave space responses on cards other than Card IX are more likely than non-space-respondents to respond to the faintly colored center Card IX regions. Results suggested that the total absence of color and shading may not be an essential space response score criterion.
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