title: Construct validity of the Rorschach Oral Dependency (ROD) Scale: relationship of ROD scores to WAIS-R scores in a psychiatric inpatient sample.
abstract: Three-hundred and two psychiatric inpatients (166 women and 136 men) completed Masling, Rabie, and Blondheim's Rorschach Oral Dependency (ROD) Scale and the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised (WAIS-R). As predicted, ROD scale scores were unrelated to WAIS-R scores in subjects of either sex. These findings support the discriminant validity of the ROD scale as a measure of interpersonal dependency, and suggest that deficits in intellectual ability do not underlie the dependency-related behaviors (e.g., suggestibility, conformity, interpersonal yielding) that are associated with high scores on the ROD scale. Implications of these findings for research on the dependency-academic performance relationship are discussed, and suggestions for future studies assessing the convergent and discriminant validity of the ROD scale are offered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, PA 17325, USA.
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Bornstein
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: O'Neill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*