The construct validity of Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS) variables theoretically linked to alexithymia was evaluated in 92 outpatients with inflammatory bowel disease, 32 of whom were categorized as alexithymic, 15 as indeterminate-alexithymic, and 45 as nonalexithymic, on the basis of Toronto Alexithymia Scale scores. Six sets of Rorschach CS marker variables were selected for analysis: f...

2 cognitive dispositions, inferential and analytic, and their relationship to impulsive school behavior were investigated. The relationship of the dispositions to the Fisher-Cleveland Barrier score was also tested. The Kagan Conceptual Styles Test (CST) and the Rorschach ink blots were administered to 46 extremely impulsive boys in special 4th-grade school classrooms. The CST was not able to di...

By the fact that it is a method of several facilities in the data research and it’s very simple to evaluate them, so knowing that we are evaluating this method. To do such a thing, we are using a psychodiagnostic exam which is recognized all over the world by the psychiatric and psychologic clinic, this is Rorschach test, as an instrument to evaluate Rayid method we don’t intend to equalize one...

Seventy-one schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic hospitalized patients were assessed on three scales for aspects indicative of a thinking disorder on the Rorschach: disruption of logical thought, irrelevant or personalized associations, and elaboration in affective terms. Each scale could be reliably scored according to the criteria described. The scales correlated significantly with other Rorsch...

62 junior ballet dancers from the Finnish National Opera (44 girls, 18 boys, ages 9 to 17 yr.) completed the Battle Self-esteem Inventory Form B or AD, the Tennessee Self-concept Scale, 2 factors from Coopersmith's Self-esteem Inventory, 10 items from Rosenberg's scale, the modified Mehrabian and Epstein Empathy Scale, a questionnaire on hobbies, the Rorschach and the Figural B Form of Torrance...

The term "projective tests" is customarily applied to several of the sharpest and most valuable weapons in the clinical psychologist's armoury. Some of these?the Rorschach test, for example?are well known; others are not, and indeed some depend for their effectiveness upon their deceptive similarity to verbal intelligence tests. There are, nevertheless, essential differences between them and th...