Self-report as a validity check for the Lüscher Color Test.
20 college students, in a single-group design, participated in a study of the validity of the Lüscher Color Test. The objective was to determine whether personality descriptions based on the test would significantly match written statements the subjects selected as self-descriptive. Each subject took the test twice and data from the second testing were analyzed. Later, the same subjects took a self-report test on which they rated 32 statements on a continuum from "characteristics I identify with most" to "characteristics I identify with least." The results of comparing the two tests showed a greater than chance correspondence between the test descriptions and self-report descriptions. Observed social desirability appears to account for the correlation.
D002755:Choice Behavior; D003118:Color Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests