title: Refinements in the Rorschach Ego Impairment Index incorporating the human representational variable.
abstract: The Ego Impairment Index (EII; Perry & Viglione, 1991) is a composite measure of psychological impairment and thought disturbance developed from the empirical and theoretical literature on the Rorschach. In this article, we summarize reliability and validity data regarding the EII. Our major goal was to present the rationale and empirical basis for recent refinements in the EII. Among the subcomponents of the original EII was the Human Experience variable (HEV), which has recently been revised and replaced with the Human Representational variable (HRV; Viglione, Perry, Jansak, Meyer, & Exner, 2003). In this study, we replaced the HEV with the HRV to create the EII-2. This was accomplished by recalculating the factor coefficients with a sample of 363 Rorschach protocols. We present additional validity data for the new EII-2. Research recommendations and interpretive guidelines are also presented.
authors.affiliation: California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego 92131-1799, USA. dviglione@alliant.edu
authors.forename: Donald J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Viglione
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011936:Reality Testing; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013850:Thinking