Test-Taking Attitudes and Rorschach Pathognomic Verbalization

Abstract

Summary An experiment was conducted to test the prediction that a loose, imaginative rather than a constrained, constricted test-taking attitude would result in higher Pathognomic Verbalization scores. Under a “Free-Wheeling” instructional set 31 college students were group-administered the Rorschach and 28 students were given it under an “Up-Tight” instructional set. The Free-Wheeling group gave significantly more responses and significantly more self references, which may indicate a looser, more uninhibited and unconstrained attitude toward the test. The results suggest the situational sensitivity of both the number of responses and the number of self-references, and lend support to the validity of the other Pathognomic Verbalization categories as variables indicative of inner disturbance.

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