Scoring System for the Gerontological Apperception Test

Hayslip, Bert; Francis, Jacqueline; Radika, Lisa M.; Lambert, Paul F.; Panek, Paul; Lind, Lisa

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“…All persons reported generally good health and were free of obvious visual/ auditory deficits that would compromise test administration and performance. Stories to each GAT card were evaluated in light of the presence or absence of 20 GAT variables developed by the first author (see Table 1) and scored along the criteria created by Hayslip and Bosmajian (1976) wherein for each variable, stories received a score of 0 or 1. Thus, scores for each GAT variable could range from 0 to 14.…”

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The development of a scoring system for the Gerontological Apperception Test

Hayslip¹,

Francis²,

Radika³

et al. 2002

J Clin Psychol

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To explore the viability of a revised and more differentiated scoring system for use with the Gerontological Apperception Test (GAT; Wolk & Wolk, 1971), 102 older adults (mean age = 68.3 years) were administered the GAT. Scoring criteria were developed to reflect a variety of constructs speaking to the interpersonal, health-related, and intrapsychic dimensions of the experience of later life. For each of these 20 GAT variables, indices of interscorer agreement exceeded 80%. Bivariate correlations suggested that 12 of 20 GAT dimension scores were related to chronological age as well as to scores derived from measures of crystallized and fluid ability. This also was true for 2 of 5 GAT factor scores. Not only do these data suggest that newly developed GAT variables can be reliably scored, but they also indicate that these more carefully differentiated variables relate to measures of intellectual functioning in theoretically meaningful ways. These findings therefore speak to the utility of the GAT using more carefully defined scoring criteria.

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The development of a scoring system for the Gerontological Apperception Test

Hayslip¹,

Francis²,

Radika³

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J Clin Psychol

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“…een beeld van psychodynamische aspecten (angsten, impulsen, zelfbeelden, percepties van anderen). 47…”

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The double ageing evolution in Europe is a tremendous challenge for health care. Older adults with a personality disorder place an additional burden: they have more somatic and psychiatric co-morbidity than those without a personality disorder. Moreover, they experience less quality of life than individuals without personality disorders. This is in sharp contrast to the dearth of empirical research concerning the construct of personality disorders in later life, the very limited amount of available diagnostic tools, criteria of classification systems like DSM not being attuned to the elderly context and the lack of age-neutrality of popular instruments to measure personality disorders. Therefore, in the Netherlands and Belgium a start was made to develop and validate age-specific instruments and to examine the applicability of the alternative dimensional-hybrid DSM-5 classification of personality disorders in older adults. These recent developments and how to apply them for a personalized assessment in older adults will be discussed. Finally, we advise a phased test-based diagnostic approach in which the above-mentioned instruments, combined with measures of adaptive features or more specific tests, can contribute to an assessment optimizing the balance between restricting the load for the older patient and still being sufficiently comprehensive to result in a personalized approach of the diagnostic process.

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Scoring System for the Gerontological Apperception Test

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