Form Quality in Rorschach Comprehensive System and R-PAS: Sample of Psychiatric Cases

Abstract

Abstract:The creation of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) requires research that allows its use in the Brazilian population. The Formal Quality (FQ) category is essential both for clinic and research. The aim of this study was to compare form quality variables in Rorschach protocols from psychiatric patients and ratings coded in the Comprehensive System (CS) and R-PAS. The sample comprised 206 Rorschach protocols from adult patients in psychiatric treatment, who were also assessed by SCID-I and SCID-II. Most protocols were administered in the CS and recoded according to the R-PAS. The kappa coefficient was calculated, and we compared the means of these variables in both systems. The kappa results varied from almost perfect to substantial consistency for all variables, however, the descriptive statistics confirmed that the R-PAS elicits more FQ ordinary coding while the CS elicits more FQ minus coding. Keywords Calidad Formal del Sistema Comprehensivo de Rorschach y R-PAS: Muestra de Casos PsiquiátricosResumen: La creación del Sistema de Evaluación del Desempeño de Rorschach (R-PAS) requiere estudios para su uso en la población brasileña. La calidad formal (FQ) es una categoría esencial en la clínica y la investigación. El objetivo del estudio fue comparar variables de FQ de protocolos de Rorschach codificados por el Sistema Comprehensivo y R-PAS. La muestra consistió de 206 protocolos de Rorschach de pacientes adultos en tratamiento psiquiátrico, que también fueron evaluados por la SCID-I y SCID-II. La mayoría de los protocolos fue aplicada en el SC y re-codificados de acuerdo con el R-PAS. Se calculó el coeficiente kappa y se comparó el promedio de estas variables en los dos sistemas. Los resultados de kappa se variaron desde concordancia casi perfecta hasta consistencia considerable para todas las variables, pero las estadísticas descriptivas confirmaron que el R-PAS provoca más codificación de FQ ordinaria y el SC de FQ menos.

Incremental Validity between the Wartegg and Rorschach tests (R-PAS)

“…The same can be observed in formal quality variables. Several authors (Marques, Chaves, & Yazigi, 2012;Pianowski & Villemor-Amaral, 2010;Yazigi et al, 2016) also observed a relationship between formal quality and perceptual elements, usually with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, this being a good indicator for the disorder. In this sense, observing the correlations between the formal quality codes, it is possible to notice that as the subject tends to distort his perception in the Rorschach test, providing poor responses to the contours of the stain, he also tends to complete the figures of the Wartegg Test without much reference to the initial stimulus of the frame, that is, with little integration in his/her perception between the initial stimulus and the final product.…”

Reassessment (after 15 Years) of Non-Patient Adults by the Rorschach Method

“…Its continuous technical-scientific improvement is one of its greatest advantages in comparison to other instruments available in the scientific literature. It has an important history of positive psychometric evidence and promising results in different sociocultural contexts (Azoulay et.al., 2007; Giromini, Viglione & McCullaugh, 2015; Ikiz et al, 2010; Ikiz, Düsgör, Atak, Mete, & Kalem, 2015; Kivisalu, Lewey, Shaffer, & Canfield, 2016; Meyer, Shaffer, Erdberg, & Horn, 2015; Mihura, Meyer, Dumitrascu, & Bombel, 2013; Mihura, Meyer, Bombel, & Dumitrascu 2015; Yazigi, et al, 2016).…”