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| Author(s): |
Joana Brasileiro Barroso
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2013-04-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Sonia Regina Pasian;
Anna Elisa de Villemor Amaral;
Fabiano Koich Miguel
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| Advisor: | Sonia Regina Pasian |
| Abstract | |
The national and international guidelines for psychological evaluation suggest the need for constant updating of psychometric data of the instruments used in professional practice. Among the projective methods of psychological assessment, with promising use, is the Pfister Color Pyramid Test, but its normative data concerning the last three decades do not include the age of adolescence. In this context, the present study aimed to characterize and systematize Pfister\'s evaluative standards for teenagers, seeking to optimize the use of this projective method in Brazil. We also tried to verify influences of sex, age and school origin in the results of this projective method. A total of 180 participants from 12 to 14 years old, of both sexes, from public and private schools in the country of the state of São Paulo, all volunteers, with reports of parents / guardians informing signals of typical development (not patients). After informed consent for research, adolescents were individually assessed using the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence INV (form C - to control the intellectual level of the participants, accepting the sample those with minimal performance equivalent to percentile of 25%) and the Pfister Test, followed by their manuals technical guidance. Data from this study focus on the variables of the Pfister test, namely frequency of colors, chromatic syndromes, the formal aspect, execution and chromatic formula, comparing them (Student t test, p <= 0.05) to normative data available from 1978 (adolescents) and 2005 (adult non patients) in order to demonstrate empirically the specificity of normative references for proper psychological assessment of adolescents in the contemporary context. The average results of the sample currently assessed were the following, in descriptive terms: Blue (18.6%), Green (15.7%), Red (15.0%), Violet (12.8%), White (8 9%), Yellow (8.7%), Orange (7.0%), Black (6.9%), Brown (3.0%), Grey (2.8%) and syndromes: Normal Syndrome = 49.5%, Cold Syndrome = 47.2%, Stimulus Syndrome = 30.8%, Dynamism Syndrome = 27.6% and Syndrome Colorless = 18.7%. Regarding the formal aspect, there was a predominance of carpets (49.4%), then formations (36.5%) and lastly, structures (14.1%), the vast majority executed with ordering (77.8% ), some methodically (17.8%) and others disordered (4.4%). The chromatic formulas distributed as follows: a) amplitude: wide (69.4%), moderate (21.7%) and restricted (8.9%), b) variability: flexible (55.6%) unstable (27.2%) and stable (17.2%). There were statistically significant differences by sex and school origin in the adolescents, with few specifics depending on the age of the age group evaluated here. The statistical comparison between the 1978 and current data also identified statistically significant differences in the following chromatic choices: green, violet, orange, yellow, brown, black, white and gray, plus syndromes stimulus and colorless. Compared with the 2005 sample, showed up statistically significant differences in colors: red, green, violet, orange, brown and black, and also in all syndromes except the cold syndrome. From these results, one can draw that there are differences between the current results (adolescents assessed in 2011) and the sample of 1978 (adolescents) and 2005 (adults), making it necessary to update the normative data of the Pfister, as intended in this study , strengthening their justifications and their practical use in cases of psychological assessment (CAPES and FAPESP). (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/04790-0 - The Pfister Colored Pyramid Test: normative study with teenagers |
| Grantee: | Joana Brasileiro Barroso |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |