Development and Applications of Projective Technics

Chapter VI: Development and Applications of Projective Techniques

“…THE AUTHORS wrote in a REVIEW article three years ago (38) that research with projective techniques presented more of a challenge than research with conventional psychometric methods because there was no clear-cut agreement as to the rationale for the whole process, because it was extremely difficult to find reliable criterion measures, and because there was no common metric. As was indicated, due to these difficulties the researcher with projective methods often failed to employ scientific methods, failed to use control groups, used too few cases, tended to overgeneralize his findings, described his scoring procedures too vaguely, used ill-defined criterion measures, and continued to rework concepts that research had shown to be neither important nor meaningful.…”