Rorschach Responses of Eighty-Two Preschool Children

The response to color and ego functions.

“…Specific figures are not given. However, a glance at the studies by Ford (30) and Swift (86) show that, when color naming is excluded, pure C is not a particularly frequent type of response. To be sure, CF outweighs FC, but some FC does appear.…”

Special Section: Studies with Children and Adolescents

“…Among the pioneers were Beck and his paper on the Rorschach in problem children in 1930; Kerr, who in 1934 wrote on the application of the Rorschach in children; Hertz and her Rorschach norms for adolescents in 1935 as well as her articles on personality patterns in adolescence in 1941; Piotrowski and his papers on child psychopathology in 1937 and 1945; Dworetzki and her study on the evolution of the perception in children in 1939; Klopfer with his studies on Rorschach reactions in early childhood in 1939 (Klopfer, Margulies, Murphy, & Stone, 1941) and on personality diagnosis in childhood in 1945 (Klopfer, 1945); Swift’s study with preschool children in 1944 (Swift, 1944a,b); Ford and her book The Application of the Rorschach Text to Young Children in 1946; Loosli-Usteri and Le diagnostic Individuel chez L’Enfant au Moyen du Test de Rorschach [The Child through the Rorschach Test], in 1948; Schachtel and Levy on the Rorschach with nursery-age children in 1945; Ames, Métraux, Rodell, and Walker in their 1974 article Child Rorschach: Developmental trends from two to ten years with some 72 references of English literature on the Rorschach with children.…”

Personality integration and adjustment during childhood.

“…Rorschach Test with young children is the necessity for different interpretations according to the age level of the child, i.e., the normative data obtained with adults are not appropriate for interpretations of children's responses. Data collected by Swift(150) on preschool children, and data obtained by Ford (52) on 123 children between three and eight years of age demonstrate that normative standards do change with age. For example, Ford (52) found a predominance of C (color) responses between three and five years of age, and a predominance of CF (color-form) responses between six and seven years of age.…”