Date of Award
Summer 1995
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Ivanoff, John
Second Advisor
Lueger, Robert J.
Third Advisor
Fox, Robert
Abstract
This study's older adult participants live in the community and function at a high level, but give fewer human movement and color responses than the Exner adult normative sample. Adult control group participants under age 60 show expected frequency of human movement and color responses, but fail to show retest reliability claimed for the Comprehensive System. Examiner's use of the recommended encouragement to give more than 13 responses may increase number of responses, but does not increase reliability. Predicted retest reliability of a much wider range of structural findings is also not found for either group. A behavioral task previously reported to validate EB style fails to show the predicted relationship with Rorschach EB processing style for either group.