Aplicação R-Otimizada no Zulliger: evidências de validade com pacientes depressivos

Abstract

A proposta de uso do Zulliger controlando o número de respostas (R-Otimizado) é inédita e, com isso, é necessária a verificação empírica de suas evidências de validade, objetivo central deste estudo. Levando em conta as similaridades dos métodos de Zulliger e Rorschach, procurou-se evidências de validade para o Zulliger, aplicação R-otimizada, por meio da concordância com Rorschach nas variáveis relacionadas à depressão. Para a amostra, foram recrutados 39 sujeitos, com diagnóstico primário de depressão e que apresentaram sintomatologia depressiva na Escala Baptista de Depressão. Foram administrados os métodos de Zulliger e Rorschach de forma alternada para controle do efeito de um instrumento sobre o outro. Para as análises, foram selecionadas as variáveis relacionadas à depressão, segundo literatura prévia. Os resultados demonstraram evidências iniciais de validade para algumas variáveis relacionadas à depressão, melhorando a correlação entre elas, quando comparado a estudos anteriores que não utilizaram o Zulliger aplicação R-otimizada. Palavras-chave: avaliação psicológica; depressão; psicopatologia; técnicas projetivas; Rorschach.

Comparison of pathological and healthy indicators of Zulliger with R-optimized administration

“…R is related with productivity, and ability to produce ideas (Villemor-Amaral & Primi, 2009) and the group of non-patients obtained the highest mean, which is in line with the literature, as people with psychopathological diagnoses are more likely to present a lower number of answers (Gonçalves & Villemor-Amaral, manuscript submitted for publication; Gonçalves et al, 2019).…”

“…Data were collected individually and by various researchers involved in the studies promoted by the LAPSaM, Universidade São Francisco (USF). Please refer to the original studies for further details concerning ethical procedures and data collection (Gonçalves et al, 2019;Villemor-Amaral & Primi, 2009).…”

“…Anna Elisa de Villemor-Amaral, Gabriel Vitor A. Gomes Gonçalves et al, 2019;Villemor-Amaral et al, 2016), targeting an optimized range of responses. This study was motivated by previous studies suggesting that the number of answers in the Zulliger test interferes with the instrument's remaining variables (Villemor-Amaral & Cardoso, 2012;Villemor-Amaral et al, 2016).…”

“…Initial studies used an adaptation of the R-optimized administration to verify the viability of using it with Zulliger in samples of patients. This adaptation asks from three to five responses per card, eliciting a higher number of answers, so that the test's three cards elicit from nine to 15 answers in the protocol as a whole (Gonçalves & Villemor-Amaral, manuscript submitted for publication; Gonçalves, Zuanazzi, & Villemor-Amaral, 2019). Note that the two studies have different proposals and were conducted with the same database.…”

“…Villemor-Amaral and Machado (2011) and Franco and Villemor-Amaral (2012a) so the authors concluded that the Zulliger applied with R-optimized administration provides a more significant contribution to understand how people with depression function, opening up the possibility of conducting similar studies with individuals with other psychopathologies. Anna Elisa de Villemor-Amaral, Gabriel Vitor A. Gomes Gonçalves et al (2019) sought evidence to validate Zulliger using the adapted R-optimized administration by associating Rorschach in the variables related to depression. A total of 39 individuals, mostly women (83.2%), diagnosed with depression and aged between 18 and 62 years old (M = 34.90; SD = 11.54), participated in the study.…”