Correlation between the RPRS total and WAIS FSIQ showed that approximately 43% of the variance in the RPRS total can be accounted for by the variance in the FSIQ. Verbal IQ is not significantly higher correlated with the RPRS total than the Performance IQ (p < .10). Factor analysis of the 6 RPRS subscores resulted in 2 factors. Subsequent factor analysis of the 6 RPRS subscores plus FSIQ and the factor analysis of the 6 RPRS subscores plus PIQ and VIQ showed the first factor to be an intelligence factor accounting for 85% of the common variance. The RPRS variables FL, FM, M and Sh loaded on this factor. The second factor was a nonintelligence factor accounting for 15% of the common variance. Small m is clearly the main determinant of this factor followed by Sh. In addition, the results of 2 exploratory factor analyses are discussed. The first exploratory factor analysis involved 23 variables, namely the 6 RPRS subscores, RPRS total, the 11 WAIS subscales, FSIQ, VIQ, PIQ, VIS and OABD. The second exploratory analysis involved 17 variables, namely the 6 RPRS subscores and the 11 WAIS subscales.

It is possible to determine the degree of intelligence of an individual by use of the M (human movement) response of the Group Rorschach Blank arranged by M. R. Harrower. Is there a significant difference between the correlation of summed human movement Rorschach scores and intelligence test scores earned in a sixth grade elementary school population. The writer is attempting to determine further whether or not it is possible to predict the intelligence of an individual by use of the M (human movement) response of the Group Rorschach Blank.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the following relationships: 1. The relationship of personality attributes measured by the Structured-Objective Rorschach Test (SORT) and success in student teaching when the grade point average earned in student teaching was used as a criterion of success. 2. The relationship of SORT attributes and success in student teaching when the college coordinator's ratings of the student teacher were used to measure success.

Sexual abuse of children has profound negative effects on psychological development. This study examined the effects of sexual abuse on object relations functioning by using the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale (MAS, Urist, 1977) to score Rorschach protocols of 63 abused children and 60 non-abused clinical controls. The hypothesis that abused children would have less developed object relations than their non-abused counterparts was not supported. Neither was the hypothesis that children who experienced greater severity of sexual abuse would exhibit more malevolent object relations. The hypothesis that mean and modal MAS scores would be highly intercorrelated and interchangeable as research variables was supported. Comparisons of this sample to a normative sample are discussed.

This study attempted to provide validation for Lerner and Lerner's Rorschach Defense Scale by investigating the relationship between primitive defenses as measured by the Rorschach Defense Scale, level of object relations as measured by the Developmental Analysis of the Concept of the Object Scale, and characteristic defensive operations as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. One hundred and twenty undergraduates completed the Rorschach and MMPI, and the RDS and DACOS were applied to their Rorschach responses. The results show a significant positive correlation between use of primitive defenses and level of object relations development -and a significant negative correlation between the defense Projective Identification and MMPI scale 6 (Paranoia) elevation. Overall, these results did not support the validity of the RDS.

The present study used the Psychoanalytic Rorschach Profile (PRP) to assess differences in personality organization in violent and nonviolent juvenile offenders.

This investigation represents an attempt to employ the Devries Suicide Prediction Scale and the Rorschach Inkblot Test in a two-stage predictive model which was designed to decrease the high false positive rate associated with the Devries and to design a way in which the Rorschach could be used efficiently in suicide prediction in a large mental hospital setting. The Rorschach was not found to significantly improve the predictive ability of the Devries. An unexpectedly high percentage of mental patients in the study, thirty-eight percent, admitted to previous suicide attempts, raising the question of whether suicidal behavior is not more common than is usually thought.

The following experimental study was conducted to test these hypotheses. The subjects used in the study were twenty-five males and twenty-five females from undergraduate courses in psychology at the freshman and sophomore levels. Procedure.--Each subject was administered the Rorschach test, in the manner described by Beck (1961), except that the subject was seated facing the test administrator. Each subject was also administered the MMPI, using,.Form R.

Dentre outras questões em saúde pública, o tabagismo e a depressão se constituem em situações que ocupam os profissionais de saúde que buscam elaborar medidas preventivas auxiliares no tratamento destas. O tempo de duração, as recaídas e os problemas, físicos e mentais, que sofrem as pessoas, portadoras destes transtornos mentais, constituem um grande desafio no tratamento dos mesmos. Buscar instrumentos de avaliação psicológica que auxiliem neste processo é o principal objetivo. Este trabalho verificou indicadores de depressão em pessoas portadoras de dependência de nicotina (tabagistas), por meio do Teste de Bender e do Método de Rorschach, que podem mensurar traços do funcionamento da personalidade, contribuindo para o entendimento destas características de personalidade, auxiliando na compreensão dos processos psíquicos do indivíduo tabagista, informações que podem auxiliar nos processos preventivos. Os participantes são tabagistas e não tabagistas que estavam cursando algum curso superior e sem histórico de tratamento de depressão ou outro transtorno mental. A coleta de dados foi realizada individualmente com cada um dos participantes (n=60). Os instrumentos utilizados foram entrevista preliminar; a Adaptação Hutt do Teste de Bender e o Método de Rorschach. Os principais resultados se referem ao Teste de Bender e ao Método de Rorschach pelo Sistema Compreensivo de Exner. No Bender são relevantes os dados relativos à análise configuracional da Depressão da Escala de Psicopatologia; no Rorschach são ressaltados os itens que compõe o Índice de Depressão. Concluiu-se que o Teste de Bender, com a escala de avaliação de aspectos psicopatológicos, e o Método de Rorschach, no Sistema Compreensivo, podem auxiliar nos trabalhos preventivos, trazendo indicadores do funcionamento psíquico do indivíduo tabagista. Por outro lado, também se verificou a necessidade de aprofundamento dos estudos nesta área, ampliando o número de participantes e realizando estudos longitudinais / Among other public health issues, smoking and depression are situations that worry health professionals. Thus, they try to take measures to provide against them and help in their treatment. The duration, relapses, and the mental and physical problems of people who present these mental disorders go through present a big challenge to the treatment. Searching for ways to evaluate psychologically and, therefore, help in this process is the main goal. This work detected depression symptoms in people addicted to nicotine (tobacco users) by using the Bender Test and the Rorschach Method, which can measure aspects of the personality, contributing to the understanding of these personality traits. It can help us understand the psychological processes of the tobacco users, helping in the prevention processes. The participants were smokers and non smokers; they were college students and had never undergone any depression or mental disorder treatment. The data collection was carried out individually with each one of the participants (n=60). Preliminary interviews, the Hutt Adaptation of the Bender Test, and the Rorschach Method, Comprehensive System were used. The main results refer to the Bender Test and the Rorschach Method. In the Bender Test, the data related to the configuration in the analysis of depression from the psychopathology; in the Rorschach Method the items that comprise the Depression Index. It was concluded that the Bender Test, with the scale of evaluation of psychopathologic aspects, and the Rorschach Method can help in the prevention procedures, showing how the psychological functioning of smokers work. On the other hand, it became clear that a deep study in this area is necessary, increasing the number of participants and carrying out longitudinal studies

A adição a drogas psicoativas é um fenômeno que atinge todas as sociedades, causando sérios danos nos mais diversos contextos sociais. Avanços significativos no conhecimento sobre aspectos psicofarmacológicos e epidemiológicos da drogadição na atualidade, contudo, investigações relativas ao dinamismo psíquico dos usuários de drogas não se apresentam na mesma proporção. Mediante a gravidade e complexidade desta problemática, faz-se importante reunir indícios técnicos referentes à psicodinâmica destes indivíduos drogaditos, no intuito de compreender melhor o fenômeno. Diante destas considerações, objetivou-se avaliar as características psicológicas de usuários de drogas focalizando-se sua história de vida, desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor e dinâmica da personalidade. Foram avaliados 20 homens de 18 a 35 anos, sendo 10 usuários de drogas psicoativas (G1) há pelo menos um ano, que se encontravam em fase de busca de tratamento, recém ingressos em contextos de internação institucional, e outros 10 indivíduos não usuários de drogas (G2) que fizeram parte do grupo controle. Como recursos técnicos para a avaliação psicológica foram utilizados a entrevista semi-dirigida, o teste INV- forma C, as Figuras Complexas de Rey e o Psicodiagnóstico de Rorschach. A aplicação dos métodos avaliativos foi feita em duas sessões, realizadas na própria instituição ou no consultório particular do pesquisador. O INV indicou normalidade intelectual em todos os participantes. As Figuras de Rey evidenciaram normalidade neuropsicomotora, porém com déficit de desempenho de G1 em relação a G2, em virtude da tensão e impulsividade deste grupo na realização da tarefa. Verbalizaram vivências de intenso sentimento de desespero e de perda total do controle da vida, gerando grande inquietação e ansiedade. O Rorschach evidenciou uso maciço da racionalidade e controle da afetividade em G1 e G2; semelhanças na sensibilidade afetiva (fórmulas vivenciais) e controle ineficaz do afeto em G1, associado à imaturidade afetiva e dificuldades na adaptação social em G1 (aumento do H%). A vivência do sentimento de angústia e de impotência perante a dramaticidade do contexto familiar foi mencionada como principal causadora da drogadição. Angústia, morte e acidentes traumáticos associados ao contexto familiar foram temas recorrentes na história de vida do G1. A maioria destes indivíduos relatou enfrentamento de situações dramáticas durante o desenvolvimento infantil e que o correspondente sentimento de impotência perante o fato foi proeminente para o ingresso na drogadição. A problemática familiar evidenciou-se nas percepções do contexto hostil e violento da relação com a figura paterna: falta de entendimento com o pai; ausência, mágoa ou violência associados à figura paterna. A análise simbólica da prancha IV do Rorschach, também evidenciou, freqüentemente, sensação disfórica e ameaçadora, diante da figura masculina percebida sob a forma de figuras fantásticas ou pára-humanas. No entanto, os usuários de drogas apresentaram bom potencial intelectivo, parcialmente aproveitado, acompanhado por ansiedade e tensão constante. / The addition of the psychoactive drugs is a phenomenon that reaches all the societies, causing serious damages in the most diverse social contexts. Significant advances in the knowledge on psychopharmacological and epidemiologists aspects of the drogadiction in the present time, however, relative inquiries to the psychodynamism of the of drug users are not presented in the same ratio. By means of the gravity and complexity of this problematic, its important to congregate technicians indications referring to the psychodynamism of these individuals drogadictions, in intention to understand the phenomenon deeply. Ahead of these considerations, it was objectified to evaluate the psychological characteristics of users of drugs being focused their histories of life, their neuropsicomotor development and their personality dynamic. Twenty men of 18 35 years old was available, 10 users of psychoactive drugs (G1) in treatment search, newly-ingressed in contexts of institucional internment and others 10 not users of drugs (G2), the last, the control group. As technician resources for the psychological evaluation they had been used the semi-structured interview, the INV- Test form-C, the Complex Figures of Rey and the Rorschach Method. The application of the methods was made in two sessions, carried through in the own institution or in the particular doctor\'s office of the researcher. The INV indicated intellectual normality in all the participants. The Figures of Rey had evidenced neuropsychomotor normality, however with deficit of performance of G1 in relation to G2, in virtue of the tension and impulsiveness of this group in the accomplishment of the task. The subjects have related experiences of intense feeling of desperation and total loss of life control, generating great inquietude and anxiety. The Rorschach evidenced massive use of the rationality and control of the affectivity in G1 and G2; similarities in affective sensitivity (existential formulas) and inefficacious control of the affection in G1, associated with the affective immaturity and difficulties in the social adaptation in G1 (increase of H%). The experience of the feeling of anguish and impotence in front of the dramaticity of the familiar context was mentioned as the main causer of the drogadiction. Anguish, death and traumatic accidents associates to the familiar context had been recurrent themes in the history of life of the G1. The majority of them has told confrontation of dramatical situations during the childish development and the corresponding feeling of impotence in front of the fact was prominent for the ingression in the drogadiction. The familiar problematic was proven in the perceptions of the hostile and violent context of the relation with the paternal figure: lack of agreement with the father; absence, sorrow or violence associated to the paternal figure. The symbolic analysis of Rorschachs plate IV, also evidenced, frequently, disforical and threatening sensation, ahead of the masculine figure perceived under the form of fantastic figures or pára-humans. However, the users of drugs had presented good intelective potential, partially utilized, joint for anxiety and constant tension.