title: Hostility of asocial youth as measured by the TAT and Rorschach.
abstract: 23 boys and 13 girls, aged 13 to 17 yr., from two homes for delinquents were given the Thematic Apperception Test. Girls were also given the Rorschach. The 1960 Hafner and Kaplan TAT and Rorschach hostility indices were related to the 1977 Luukkonen indices (aggression-inward, aggression-outward, fantasy-aggression, oral, anal and phallic content), to the Pruitt and Spilka empathy index, and to the Neiger reality index. The TAT hostility index for boys was significantly higher than that for girls; boys expressed more physical and girls more verbal hostility in TAT stories. On the Rorschach, aggression outward and inward correlated significantly with Rorschach hostility, phallic and oral themes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kalliopuska
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012392:Rorschach Test; D013803:Thematic Apperception Test