Rorschach performance in relation to two types of stress.

Personality variables and response to color.

“…Turning to studies using anxiety induced by experimental stress, Eichler (1951), Westrope (1953), Baker and Harris (1949), Stopol (1954), and Alice (1948) reported insignificant results. Williams (1947) reported a positive finding, but Carlson and Lazarus (1953) replicated Williams' study and found an insignificant trend in the opposite direction.…”

Manifestations of Anxiety on the Rorschach Test

“…The results are only confusing when they are lumped together regardless of the operations used to measure anxiety. In fact, several of the studies cited here (Fisher, 1958;Holtzman, Iscoe & Calvin, 1954;Schon & Bard, 1958;Stopol, 1954) have either methodological weaknesses or were designed primarily to study some other aspect of the Rorschach and have only secondarily touched on the problem of anxiety. The results of these studies tended to hinder efforts to clarify the relationship between anxiety and the Rorschach test.…”

“…H e had his experimental group shocked while they tried to solve a key manipulation problem. Stopol (1954) had undergraduates do the Wechsler-Bellevue Digit Symbol Subtest under (1) task distraction stress and (2) failure stress in which the experimenter constantly disapproved of the subject's performance. H e found no significantly distinguishing differentiating characteristics reflected on the Rorschach for the two types of stress.…”

Self ratings of fear in a fear-invoking situation.

“…Recently, Williams (16) claimed that certain Rorschach variables were associated with susceptibility to stress. Other experiments have failed to confirm his results (3,4,13).…”