[HIT scale for Argentinian adolescents]

The study presents the abridged HIT pattern (30 plates) for argentine adolescents. HIT advantage over an other inkblot tests is that it provides for its evaluation a standardized score system. Although it is a very long test in its original version (47 plates) and demands a considerable lapse for being administered and evaluated, there is an abridged version of this tests that includes only the first 32 plates. The subject must give an answer to each plate, indicating what he sees, where and why. The test may be individually or group administered, being the former the chosen in clinical cases. The abridged HIT was group administered to a sample of 156 argentine subjects, both seventeen year old boys and girls (67 boys and 89 girls), pupils of the last year in secondary schools of Buenos Aires city. Means, standard deviations and percentile ranks for both sexes and for the whole sample were obtained. The rules provided by this report are based on a rather heterogeneous but not random sample. Besides, the work has been done with a relatively small group, because of the difficulties implied in the administration of the test concerning with time and conditions required. Anyhow, the sample on which this present baremo is based does not differ too much in reference to the number and way of being extracted from those samples used by Holtzman to elaborate the original rules of the United States.