title: Potential Projective Material on the Rorschach: Comparing Comprehensive System Protocols to Their Modeled R-Optimized Administration Counterparts.
abstract: Exner ( 1989 ) and Weiner ( 2003 ) identified 3 types of Rorschach codes that are most likely to contain personally relevant projective material: Distortions, Movement, and Embellishments. We examine how often these types of codes occur in normative data and whether their frequency changes for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or last response to a card. We also examine the impact on these variables of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System's (R-PAS) statistical modeling procedures that convert the distribution of responses (R) from Comprehensive System (CS) administered protocols to match the distribution of R found in protocols obtained using R-optimized administration guidelines. In 2 normative reference databases, the results indicated that about 40% of responses (M = 39.25) have 1 type of code, 15% have 2 types, and 1.5% have all 3 types, with frequencies not changing by response number. In addition, there were no mean differences in the original CS and R-optimized modeled records (M Cohen's d = -0.04 in both databases). When considered alongside findings showing minimal differences between the protocols of people randomly assigned to CS or R-optimized administration, the data suggest R-optimized administration should not alter the extent to which potential projective material is present in a Rorschach protocol.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of San Francisco , Itatiba , Brazil.
authors.forename: Giselle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pianowski
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , University of Toledo.
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of San Francisco , Itatiba , Brazil.
authors.forename: Anna Elisa de
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Villemor-Amaral
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000592:standards*