Evaluation of Ego Strength Based on Certain Rorschach Variables

Last, Uriel; Weiss, Avraham A.

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa4001_12

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“…Garb et al criticized inclusion of studies in which Rorschach scales were used as the validating criterion for other Rorschach scales (e.g., Last & Weiss, 1976). We consistently included studies in which scales were used as validating criteria for another scale from the same instrument, regardless of whether the scales were drawn from the WAIS, the MMPI (e.g., Griffin et al, 1976), or the Rorschach, as long as the scales were indeed different.…”

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Old Wine From Old Skins Sometimes Tastes Like Vinegar: A Response to Garb, Florio, and Grove

Parker

Hunsley

Hanson³

1999

Psychol Sci

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Old Wine From Old Skins Sometimes Tastes Like Vinegar: A Response to Garb, Florio, and Grove

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Hunsley

Hanson³

1999

Psychol Sci

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“…Prior research on the empirical assessment of ego strength has been prone to many methodological problems (16). Unfortunately, attempts to validate popular measures of the construct have not yielded adequate and unequivocal findings (28,29). The controversy over ego strength assessment is most prevalent in the literature surrounding the application of Barron's Es scale (16,(30)(31)(32).…”

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Ego Strength and Psychosocial Adaptation to Cancer

Worden

Sobel

1978

Psychosomatic Medicine

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This study investigated a patient's ego strength (Es) at the time of an initial cancer diagnosis and its relationship, over time, to mood disturbance, vulnerability, self-reported physical symptom totals, current concerns, coping strategies, and effectiveness in the resolution of problems. The subjects were 163 newly diagnosed male and female cancer patients representing five primary tumor sites. All patients were seen for an initial evaluation, at which time they completed Barron's Es scale, the Profile of Mood States, the Inventory of Current Concerns, and a semistructured interview. Ratings on patient vulnerability, coping strategies, and problem resolutions were made at each of the five follow-ups. Results showed that psychosocial adaptation to cancer was related to a patient's ego strength. Es correlated positively with a patient's use of effective coping strategies. The concept of Es and problems with Es assessment were discussed within a cognitive-ego analytic frame of reference.

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“…The data reported here are not an outcome of a planned investigation, but rather an incidental result of having the opportunity to compile data gathered from the same subjects in two distinct unrelated studies, one an already published Rorschach investigation (Last & Weiss, 1976) and the other an unpublished risk-taking study, which enables us to pinpoint a highly specific risk-taking related behavior denoted as “defiance of odds in face of failure,” which may be conceived as a limited, specific instance of the broad term “oppositional trend.”…”

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Defying the Odds and Rorschach Space Responses: An Empirical Contribution

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2002

Rorschachiana

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Rorschach white space responses bear, from Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics up to Exner's Comprehensive System, the meanings of some sort of oppositional trend, negativistic tendencies, contrariness accentuating uniqueness, display and defence of autonomy and self-determination, striving for independence, self-assertiveness, and mastery (Exner, 1993; Weiner, 1998). Yet, attempts to relate white space responses empirically to pertinent non-Rorschach variables -in order to sustain and confirm the aforementioned interpretative meanings -yielded in the long run only equivocal results.Most of the empirical research data linking Rorschach space responses to the broad generic term of oppositionalism were reviewed by Fonda (1977), and almost no additional data have been provided in a more recent review of the issue (Frank, 1993). The volume of pertinent empirical research is surprisingly meager, and falls basically into two classes of investigations, one in which Rorschach space responses serve as an independent variable and non-Rorschach variables serve as dependent variables; and another class of investigations in which Rorschach space responses serve as dependent variable and non-Rorschach variables as independent variables. The overall impression regarding the results provided by both classes of investigation is that evidence associating space responses with oppositionalism is weak and inconsistent, and that probably this unfortunate state of affairs may be attributed to the vague and sometimes problematic ways of operationalizing oppositionalism (Fonda, 1977; Frank 1993).The data reported here are not an outcome of a planned investigation, but rather an incidental result of having the opportunity to compile data gathered from the same subjects in two distinct unrelated studies, one an already published Rorschach investigation (Last & Weiss, 1976) and

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Evaluation of Ego Strength Based on Certain Rorschach Variables

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Old Wine From Old Skins Sometimes Tastes Like Vinegar: A Response to Garb, Florio, and Grove

Old Wine From Old Skins Sometimes Tastes Like Vinegar: A Response to Garb, Florio, and Grove

Ego Strength and Psychosocial Adaptation to Cancer

Defying the Odds and Rorschach Space Responses: An Empirical Contribution

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