Rorschach CS normative study with a Brazilian Non-Patient adolescent sample

• Grant number: 12/20542-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Fundamentals and Assessments in Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Regina Sonia Gattas Fernandes Do Nascimento
• Grantee: Regina Sonia Gattas Fernandes Do Nascimento
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study is a continuation of a previous research aiming the establishment of standards for the Rorschach Comprehensive System for Brazilian adolescents. The sample was composed by 118 adolescents from the city of São Paulo, both genders, ranging from 13 to 17 years old, , from public and private schools, and various socio-economic levels. The inclusion criterion was attending school, and the exclusion criteria were have more than one year of school repetition, and be under psychiatric or psychological care. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the PUC-SP. Interrater reliability statistics among examiners were calculated. The current proposal consists of adopting new statistical procedures suggested by Gregory Meyer and related to the comparison of two classes of protocols - more and less complex - according to the complexity variable introduced by him. This variable is linked to other important variables of Rorschach, such as R, M, F, WSumC, Lambda, ZF, DQ and others. In this analysis, when the differences among groups cease to exist it means that the previous differences were mainly due to the effects of the complexity variable. The complexity is an important variable that allows to better recognize the differences between the groups. The new statistic analysis will held group comparisons between (a) 13-14 years vs. 15-17 years old; (b) public vs. private school student; (c) adolescents vs. adult sample (from our previous research, Nascimento, 2010); (d) younger teens (13-14 years) vs. older adults (40 years). The statistical procedure will apply the MANOVA syntax provided by Gregory Meyer. (AU)