Personality correlates of picture preferences.

Personality variables and response to color.

“…A measure of ego control has been shown to be unrelated to color respon-siveness. Cerbus and Nichols (1962) found no significant relationship between the measure of Self-Control on the California Psychological Inventory and preferences for achromatic and chromatic pictures. Ego control would be expected to have some commonality with ego strength, which also has not been firmly related to color responsiveness.…”

“…Fortier (1953) cited a study by Endacott on 100 delinquent boys which reported a median Sum C score which was lower than that given in a normative study of boys of that age, but no statistical tests were made. Boynton and Walsworth (1943), similarly, found that delinquent girls were significantly lower than nondelinquent girls on Sum C. Comparable results were obtained with other techniques by Cerbus and Nichols (1962), using picture preferences, and by Phillips and Stromberg (1948), using finger paintings. Cerbus obtained a marginally significant correlation between the MMPI Pd scale and a scale of preferences for achromatic over chromatic pictures.…”

“…Ego control would be expected to have some commonality with ego strength, which also has not been firmly related to color responsiveness. The Ego Strength scale of the MMPI was not significantly correlated to preference for achromatic pictures (Cerbus & Nichols, 1962), although the factor analysis of Rorschach variables and MMPI scales by Williams and Lawrence (1954) yielded a factor with high positive loadings of Barren's Ego Strength scale and of CF and C scores of the Rorschach, especially on oblique rotation. Barren (1953) operationally defined ego strength as treatment prognosis but the latter has also been demonstrated to be unrelated to response to color.…”

“…Clark (1948) found no significant difference in Hysteria scores between groups scoring high and low on Sum C, though higher Sum C scores were significantly related to scores on the Hypochondriasis scale. The color measure developed from picture preferences by Cerbus and Nichols (1962) was correlated significantly with both Hypochondriasis (.34) and Hysteria (.20) scales, but not to therapists' ratings of patients' use of hypochondriacal complaints. The significance of the correlations with the Hysteria and Hypochondriasis scales is questionable since there were only 2 significant correlations among 63 correlations calculated with the measure of preference for colored pictures.…”

“…Finney (1955) compared assaultive and nonassaultive patients matched for the same variables, but obtained significantly lower CF and Sum C scores from the nonassaultive patients. Cerbus and Nichols (1962) obtained an insignificant correlation between ratings of patients' expression of hostility and a scale measuring the degree of preference for achromatic pictures over chromatic pictures.…”