Journal of Consulting Psychology

Armitage, Stewart G.; Greenberg, Paul D.; Pearl, David; Berger, David G.; Daston, Paul G.

doi: 10.1037/h0040299pmid: 13263457

"The problem of the accuracy with which level of intellectual functioning can be predicted from the Rorschach was investigated in two ways. One was an objective, statistical approach and the other a judgmental approach. The attempt to relate, statistically, single or composite Rorschach scoring variables to Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence failed to yield useful estimates of intelligence. Clinicians, using just the Rorschach psychograms, tended to attain somewhat greater accuracy of prediction. When, however, the clinicians judged the Rorschach protocols, fairly accurate estimales of intellectual functioning were obtained."

Harris, Pearl

doi: 10.1037/h0041422pmid: 13263458

Filmer-Bennett, Gordon

doi: 10.1037/h0040231pmid: 13263459

The present study indicated that the Rorschach alone is not adequate as a measure of how a patient will react to therapy. The author suggests, however, that there is a " . . . need for re-examining the Rorschach's prognostic effectiveness under conditions which focus exclusively upon the use of, say, psychotherapy or one of the shock therapies."

Stotsky, Bernard A.

doi: 10.1037/h0048294pmid: 13263460

The determinant shift from free association to inquiry on the number of pure form responses, the total number of shading responses, and the total number of color responses was studied in groups of psychotics, neurotics and normals. It was indicated that normals and neurotics showed significantly greater shift than the psychotic group in pure form and shading responses, while "normals and psychoneurotics did not differ significantly for any of the three variables." The author suggests that these findings may favor "an interpretation of determinant shift as a measure of the sensitivity of the subject to examiner cues, rather than as a measure of flexibility."

Goodstein, Leonard D.; Goldberger, Leo

doi: 10.1037/h0043238pmid: 13263461

The Taylor Manifest Anxiety scale was given to 139 mental hospital patients. Only psychoneurotics had a significantly higher mean score than those usually found among college students. Female mean was higher than that for males. Comparison of the upper and lower 12% of subjects on anxiety scores (after excluding psychoneurotics) on Rorschach suggested that only a few of the anxiety indices are related to response-defined measures of anxiety.

Churchill, Ruth; Crandall, Vaughn J.

doi: 10.1037/h0048744pmid: 13263462

In a study of the reliability and validity of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank, among the results obtained were the following: " . . . high interscorer agreement was found among scorers who had relatively little psychological training (a B. A. in psychology or less) and who were trained exclusively on the ISB manual . . . moderate test-retest reliability behavior was found for periods up to three years, suggesting that the ISB measures more than temporary moods . . . normative data obtained in the present study did not differ significantly from the normative data presented by the ISB authors."

Bieri, James; Blacharsky, Edward; Reid, J. William

doi: 10.1037/h0042590pmid: 13263463

The hypotheses that "degree of maladjustment will correlate negatively with predictive accuracy" and that "a positive relationship will exist between degree of maladjustment and the use of assimilative projection in one's predictive behavior" were tested using the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank and the Manifest Anxiety Scale. "The results provide no support for either hypothesis . . . ." If the MAS is used as the criterion variable, more pronounced relationships are obtained than with the ISB.

Cartwright, Desmond S.

doi: 10.1037/h0045998pmid: 13263464

"Counselor ratings of success in client-centered psychotherapy for 78 clients were examined in relation to variables of sex, age, student vs. nonstudent status, and length of therapy. It was found that neither sex nor age were significantly related to degree of rated success. Students were somewhat more successful than nonstudents . . . . The relation between length of therapy and success rating was complex, with the total sample falling into . . . short-case clients [and] long-case clients. Within each group there was a strong positive relation between number of interviews and success rating. A "failure zone' ranging around 17.5 interviews was interpreted as a period during which potentially long-case clients dropped out of therapy . . . ."

Jourard, Sidney M.; Remy, Richard M.

doi: 10.1037/h0049318pmid: 13263465

Using the Maslow Test of Psychological Security-Insecurity the authors conclude that "self-appraisals covary with a person's perception or belief concerning his parents' appraisals of him; whether the self-appraisals vary with the real parental appraisals of the individual is still an open question, but one which could be investigated empirically . . . (and) negative self-appraisal, and perceived negative parental appraisals of the body and self, are correlates of psychological insecurity."

Boyd, Nancy A.; Mandler, George

doi: 10.1037/h0045730pmid: 13263466

In a study of the responses of 96 third-grade children to stimulus stories and stimulus pictures with either human or animal main characters, the main findings were: "1. Stimulus stories with human characters elicit more involvement than animal stories. 2. Animal pictures tend to elicit more original material than human pictures. 3. Changes in the main character from stimulus stories to pictures resulted in greater involvement than when stories and pictures both had human (or animal) characters. 4. Socially disapproved behavior in the stimulus stories elicits the expression of punishment. 5. Socially approved behavior in the stimulus stories elicits more projection of the self. 6. Socially disapproved behavior by human characters apparently arouses more anxiety than such behavior by animal characters."