An Examination of the Construct Validity of the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale

George Bombel · Joni L. Mihura · Gregory J. Meyer

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Using 100 clinical cases, we examined the construct validity of the Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale (Urist, 1977 Urist, J. 1977. The Rorschach Test and the assessment of object relations. Journal of Personality Assessment, 41: 3–9. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) using Westen and Rosenthal's (2003) Westen, D. and Rosenthal, R. 2003. Quantifying construct validity: Two simple measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84: 608–618. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] r contrast − construct validity (CV) procedure for quantifying a pattern of convergent-discriminant relationships between a target measure and a set of criterion variables. Our 15 criterion variables included the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003) variables, a CS-based measure of ego strength (Resnick, 1994 Resnick, J. 1994. Rorschach assessment of ego functioning: A comparison of the EII and CESI, Chicago, Illinois: Loyola University of Chicago. Unpublished master's thesis [Google Scholar]), and 3 subscales from the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (Westen, Lohr, Silk, Kerber, & Goodrich, 1990 Westen, D., Lohr, N., Silk, K., Kerber, K. and Goodrich, S. 1990. Social cognition and object relations scale (SCORS): Manual for coding TAT data, , 5th ed., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Unpublished manuscript [Google Scholar]). We generated the r contrast − CV coefficients to test 2 competing hypotheses: that the MOA Scale primarily measures object relations (OR) quality or that it primarily measures psychopathology. Results suggest that the MOA Scale is an equally potent measure of OR and psychopathology regardless of the MOA Scale index used.

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