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[Validity of hypotheses about the father/mother interpretation of Rorschach cards: tested by using a card selecting

Yoshikazu Fukui1, Yoshiaki Miyake, Tsuyoshi Okazaki

  • 1Faculty of Letters, Department of Human Sciences, Konan University, Okamoto, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8501, Japan. yfukui@konan-u.ac.jp

Shinrigaku Kenkyu : the Japanese Journal of Psychology
|September 17, 2011
PubMed

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The Rorschach Card IV is consistently identified as the father card. However, interpretations of the mother card lack consistent validation, with no single card reliably representing this figure.

Area of Science:

  • Psychological assessment
  • Personality psychology
  • Projective techniques

Context:

  • The Rorschach test is a widely used projective psychological assessment.
  • Previous research has proposed specific cards to represent parental figures.
  • The validity of these interpretations requires empirical testing.

Purpose:

  • To empirically test the validity of Rorschach card interpretations for parental figures.
  • To investigate whether specific Rorschach cards are consistently selected to represent the father and mother.
  • To analyze card selection patterns using correspondence analysis.

Summary:

  • Card IV was predominantly selected as the father card across participants, regardless of gender.
  • Card VII was not consistently chosen as the mother card; color cards were more frequently selected.
  • Correspondence analysis revealed specific card combinations and highlighted Card IV's suitability for the father hypothesis, while Card VII did not meet criteria for the mother hypothesis.

Impact:

  • Provides empirical evidence supporting Card IV as a representation of the father figure in the Rorschach test.
  • Challenges the conventional interpretation of Card VII as the mother card.
  • Suggests a need for re-evaluation of Rorschach mother card hypotheses and highlights variability in father figure representation.

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