Diagnostic psychological testing: The theory, statistical evaluation, and diagnostic application of a battery of tests: Volume II.

McNemar, Quinn; Rapaport, David; Gill, Merton M.; Schafer, Roy

doi:10.1037/10582-000

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“…A link between creative "genius" and psychosis (or "madness") has been suspected since ancient times, and continues to attract research interest (Becker, 2001). People with psychotic disorders produce unusual responses on word association tests (Rapaport, 1946), and similar tasks have been used to measure creative thinking (Benedek, Konen, & Neubauer, 2012). High scorers on P scales also tend to produce unusual word associations (Merten, 1993), so a link between P and creativity seems logical.…”

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Reading Personality: Assessing “Big Three” Traits with the Sentence Completion Method

Joy¹

2017

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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Performance-based personality assessment has advantages, and the sentence completion method is one of the most reliable of these techniques. We sought to derive rating scales for three major personality traits (Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism) based on Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB) protocols. participants and procedure Four successive samples of students (N = 231) completed the RISB and other measures. Rating scales were derived empirically and cross-validated against the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R). Additional validity evidence was obtained regarding symptomatic distress (SCL-90-R scales) and creativity (based on originality scores and expert judgments of student-generated drawings and poetry). results The scales could be applied reliably by undergraduate research assistants (mean individual intraclass correlation coefficients [ICCs] of .75, .79, and .71, respectively) and correlated well with self-reported traits (mean r values of .51, .57, and .58). Reliability of the finalized system was higher, with ICCs of .84, .83, and .79. RISB-rated traits correlated predictably with symptomatic distress. RISB-rated Psychoticism correlated strongly with the originality and judged creativity of drawings and poems. Psychoticism ratings were more strongly related to criterion measures than was the original self-report. conclusions The sentence completion method can be used to rate personality traits reliably. These ratings correlate fairly strongly with the results of self-report inventories but sometimes correlate more strongly with theoretically relevant variables than do self-report scores.

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Section: Three Major Personality Traitsmentioning

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Reading Personality: Assessing “Big Three” Traits with the Sentence Completion Method

Joy¹

2017

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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“…David Rapaport, for example, who arrived in this country in 1938, was an illustrious contributor not only to the early development of the Rors~chach but also to the theoretical and applied aspects of clinical psychlology in general. His publications with colleagues (Rapaport, Gill, & Schafer, 1946 have had a significant and enduring influence in our field. Another participant in our group was Zygmunt Piotrowski, whose first publication on the me of the Rorschach with organics appeared in 1934.…”

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Rorschachbound: A 50-Year Memoir

Hertz

1986

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Personality Assessment evokes memories of years past when I participated in its birth. Therefore, in recording what I consider significant events in Rorschach's stormy history, I am placing them within an autobiographical framework. Originally introduced into America by David Levy in the early 1920s, the Rorschach attracted students from many disciplines who revolted against the "trait" psychology that pervaded the psychological scene at the time. For 30 years, we accepted Rorschach enthusiastically as a global method that could study the human personality as a whole and in depth. In the late 1960s, we were challenged because of repeated failures in validating research. Interest declined in its development and application. Since 1970, however, it has emerged with more strength and vigor on firmer theoretical foundations and sounder methodology. Although the method is one of the most frequently required, requested, needed, recommended, and used in many clinical settings, it is still challenged today, chiefly because of overemphasis on the nomothetic approaches in research and failure to consider interactions between personality dynamics, behavior, and situational and sociocultural variables. Those of us whose lives have long been entwined with the history of the Rorschach should step back from the contemporary canvas and contemplate the future of our method, t suggest that we develop alternative conceptual models and greater diversity of research methods and modes of thought. The Journal of Personality Assessment can enhance the future of the Rorschach by giving greater prominence to clinically oriented research, notably to the idiographic and interactional aspects of the method. In so doing, the journal can help the Rorschach reach its real goal of complete scientific validity.

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“…Bell (5) wrote a comprehensive treatment of projective technics which included not only the most widely used methods but also such varied and relatively little used procedures as the Tautophone Test, cloud pictures, expressive movement, finger painting, voice and speech, and the psychodrama. Rapaport and others (38) wrote an extensive rationale of projective technics, with particularly extensive treatments of the Rorschach and the Thematic Apperception Test. Specialized treatments of the Thematic Apperception Test were issued by Stein (46) and Tomkins (52).…”

Section: Intelligence and Aptitude Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%