Studies of Rorschach Content; A Review of Research Literature Part II; Non-Traditional Uses of Content Indicators

Haley, Erin; Draguns, Juris G.; Phillips, Luke

doi:10.1080/0091651x.1967.10120356

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“…Among the nontraditional uses of content indicators (Haley, Draguns, & Phillips, 1967), scales to evaluate psychological variables are again becoming veiy popular. The type of contents studied, which traditionally have been associated with such variables as anxiety, hostility, or dependency, has recently been extended to include applications of the Rorschach test in studying object relations theories.…”

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Gender, Age and Socioeconomic Differences in Rorschach Thematic Content Scales

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Rorschach content analysis has been and continues to be a very controversial subject. Weiner (1977) has pointed out that Rorschach content interpretations are subjected to error at each step in the inferential process. Lerner (1991) has commented that there is no area of Rorschach analysis more misused and more underused than content. Aronow and Reznikoff (1976) have argued that it will be content interpretation that fulfills the promise of the Rorschach test as a significant and valid assessment instrument. Whatever the importance or limits assigned to content analysis, the different authors agree that Rorschach clinicians rely very much on content in interpreting the test.Among the nontraditional uses of content indicators (Haley, Draguns, & Phillips, 1967), scales to evaluate psychological variables are again becoming veiy popular. The type of contents studied, which traditionally have been associated with such variables as anxiety, hostility, or dependency, has recently been extended to include applications of the Rorschach test in studying object relations theories.Normative and psychosocial considerations combine to warrant the type of research with Rorschach thematic content scales that we report in this paper. On the one hand, progress in research with these variables requires the collection of normative data; there is a notable dearth of normative data bearing content scales (Aronow & Reznikoff, 1976), in contrast to the extensive normative data that are available on Rorschach structural variables (Exner, 1986). On the other hand, we are interested in learning the consequences for Rorschach interpretation, if any, of the postulate that personality is not only resident in the person. It has been claimed diat the assumption that persons are self-contained individuals 68 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

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“…A major review of Rorschach content in 1967 by Haley, Draguns, and Phillips concluded that content is more susceptible to conscious control, whether willful expression or suppression. A good current example of conscious content modification may be found in Frueh and Kinder’s (1994) “Drama Index,” documenting that PTSD “wannabees” were likely to produce more Explosion, Blood, aggression and military hardware content.…”

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How to be ConTENT With Rorschach CONtent

Peterson¹

2016

Rorschachiana

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Abstract. Content analysis is a late and contentious addition to the Rorschach canon. The determinants have ruled. Hermann Rorschach was at best, ambivalent about content analysis, focusing on the perceptual aspects of the process. Rorschachers have been not been conTENT about CONtent. The literature on the pros and cons and the how-to of content analysis is reviewed chronologically, concluding with eight issues and objections that have left Rorschach practitioners malcontent with content. Hoping to help practitioners improve the analysis of Rorschach content, ten suggestions, often with examples, are offered, these “hints” affecting both conceptualization and practice. A case fragment is appended to the review to host the above suggestions and to illustrate the (likely) less frequent “active evocation” of content to further the analysis.

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“…Add ing to the puzzle is the empirical evidence that subjects can exercise co nscious control over th eir responses. Ot her work on pr ojec tive techn iques in cludes a number of reviews of single projec tive te chn iques : th e Blacky Pictures (18) , th e Bender-Gestalt (213), human figure drawings (178,209 ), and the Rorsch ach (52,79,89,119) .…”

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Theory and Techniques of Personality Measurement

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1970

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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This chapter is one of the intermittent series which has had "assess ment" in its title. The authors have dropped that term because of its impre cision and its connotations. Assessment has often been used to refer to the combining of measures, usually by human judgment, to predict a criterion. But personality measurement as a whole involves the combination or reduc tion of observations to obtain an index and is concerned with much more than the prediction of criteria. Additionally, the terms assessment and crite ria have an evaluative flavor; while adequacy of functioning is involved in much of personality, a science of personality must not be limited to norma tive considerations. Finally, assessment has the connotation of dealing with the whole person. It seems quite clear that we cannot have a science of the whole person, or even of substantial segments of personality, until we un derstand the components.Most concepts in the personality field are so broad and heterogeneous in their referents that when one concept is used to describe different persons, it is very doubtful that the identical attribute is applied to each. The task fac ing personality today is the identifi cation and delineation of attributes which can be uniformly applied to persons, the objects of this science, with the specifi c applications of each attribute differing only in quantity, not quality. Coordinate with that task is the work of developing operations for measur ing each of these attributes. Such procedures must be standardized so that the measurements can, in principle, be replicated for the same persons and, particularly critical in this area, so that the measurements are getting at the same attribute in the different persons measured, without any sizable per son-instrument interaction. This chapter is concerned with the extent to which these standards are being approximated in personality measurement today.A science develops by an interactive or cyclical process, observations leading to concepts, and concepts guiding the next set of observations. In personality, an infi nity of observations has been conceptualized in a variety of sets of terms with general statements about them. These literary or even

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Studies of Rorschach Content; A Review of Research Literature Part II; Non-Traditional Uses of Content Indicators

Cited by 22 publications

References 131 publications

Gender, Age and Socioeconomic Differences in Rorschach Thematic Content Scales

Gender, Age and Socioeconomic Differences in Rorschach Thematic Content Scales

How to be ConTENT With Rorschach CONtent

Theory and Techniques of Personality Measurement

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