Rorschach Comprehensive System data for a sample of 75 Danish 9-year-old children: a pilot study.
This article provides a normative study documenting how 75 Danish nonpatient 9-year-old children respond to the Rorschach test. The children were selected randomly from nine different parts of Denmark and tested with the Rorschach by 10 different psychologists. All examiners were familiar with the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003), and before the data collection they participated in a 3-day workshop performed by the research group that focused on administration, inquiry, and scoring issues. Among the results are an average R of 23.6 and an average Lambda of 2.01 (median = 1.18). Slightly more than 60% of the sample had an Avoidant style (63%); 41% had a CDI of 4 or 5; and 33% were positive on the HVI. In terms of perception and thinking, average values were .44 for X+%, .27 for X-%, and 9.4 for the WSum6.
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Kim Gabriel
KG
Private Practice, Copenhagen, Denmark. kimgh@post.tdcadsl.dk
D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010553:Personality Development; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013850:Thinking