The validity of anxiety and hostility Rorschach content scores among adolescents.

Gorlow, Leon; Zimet, Carl N.; Fine, Harold J.

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“…Lerner, 1975). Scores on the instrument have been found to be related to both overt expression of aggression (Gorlow, Zimet & Fine, 1952;Wolf, 1957) and indirect manifestations of hostility (cf. Goldfried, Stricker & Weiner, 1971).…”

Section: Hostile Percepts On the Rorschachmentioning

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The relationship between individual differences in defensive style and concept formation

Szalai

Eagle

1992

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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The relationship between defensive style and concept formation with aggressive and neutral stimuli was investigated. Very strong relationships were found between the use of avoidant and repressive defenses and the number of errors made in acquiring and utilizing an aggressive concept. This relationship was not found for the neutral concept. The results suggest the importance of directing attention to the relevant stimulus dimension in efficient concept formation. Insofar as defensive style involves a particular way of deploying attention (e.g. avoidance of a particular content) and insofar as the affective nature of the stimulus material lends itself to the elicitation of defensive reactions, individual differences in defensive style can serve as a robust predictor of efficiency of concept formation.

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Section: Hostile Percepts On the Rorschachmentioning

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The relationship between individual differences in defensive style and concept formation

Szalai

Eagle

1992

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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“…The Rorschach measurement of aggression and its correlations to behavior have also been of interest to other researchers when embedded in destructive content (Finney, 1955; Rose & Bitter, 1980), white space (Carlson & Drehmer, 1984), color responses (Sommer & Sommer, 1958), hostile content (Towbin, 1959), hostile and anxious content (Gorlow, Zimet, & Fine, 1952), and aggressive drive and inhibitory controls (Rader, 1957). These findings, although demonstrating trends, were just as often equivocal as markers for behavioral aggression.…”

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The aggression response and the Rorschach

Meloy¹,

Gacono

1992

J. Clin. Psychol.

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We propose the addition of four aggressive indices for Rorschach scoring: aggressive content, aggressive potential, aggressive past, and sado‐masochism scores. Interrater agreement is presented and ranges from 92‐100%. Nomothetic comparisons are made between groups with higher base rates for violence with mixed results, although the sado‐masochism frequency was significantly higher in severe psychopaths than in moderate psychopaths. Idiographic use of the aggression indices is emphasized, with a particular focus upon inferring the quality, intensity, and directionality of intrapsychic aggression in relation to self and object representations.

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“…Studies of assaultive hospital patients have shown them to be higher on a number of scales of hostile content (Finney, 1954;Sommer & Sommer, 1958;Storuieiit & Finney, 1953;Towbin, 1959). In a group of convicts, Racier (1957) found a positive correlation between his Rorschach hostile-content scale and aggressive remarks made in group therapy sessions, while Gorlow, Zimet, and Fine (1952) reported that delinquents scored higher than nondelinquents on Elizur's (1949) scale of hostility.…”

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Undercontrolled and overcontrolled personality types in extreme antisocial aggression.

Megargee

1966

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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Physical aggression is typically attributed to inadequate control. While this is the pattern in 1 type of physically aggressive person, it is proposed that in another type, the Chronically Overcontrolled, rigid inhibitions against overt aggressive behavior will be found. Aggression by such people is apt to be of murderous intensity as aggressive impulse must build up to higher levels to overcome such inhibitions and since alternative means of expressing aggression have not been learned. This suggests that in comparison with other criminal groups, a murderously assaultive group will be assessed as l ess hostile, l ess aggressive, and more controlled. An empirical study of 4 groups of assaultive and nonviolent delinquents supports this prediction. Implications of this finding for practice and theory are discussed.Aggression and violence are more than ever becoming major problems in the United States. The names of Los Angeles, Rochester, and St. Augustine have joined Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and the Little Big Horn as American battlegrounds, There is also concern regarding individual violence. In a single week a national magazine reported the cases of two 22-year-old boys, one (a "gentle, easy-going, good natured" young man) who 5 days after graduation killed three unarmed victims during a bank robbery and the other (a "mild and loving" person) who shot his twin brother {Newsweek, 1965).When we try to apply information gleaned from empirical studies of aggression to events such as these we find a great gap between the aggression described in our journals and that described in our news-1 Based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. The author wishes to express his appreciation to the members of his doctoral committee, Hubert Coffey and Irving Piliavin, and, most especially, to the chairman, Gerald A. Mendelsohn, for assistance in the design, execution, and interpretation of the study. He also wishes to thank Lorenzo S. Buckley, Chief Probation Officer of Alameda County, California, and the staffs of the Guidance Clinic and of Juvenile Hall who collected and transcribed the data. Finally, he wishes to thank the University of California Computer Center for donating time on the IBM 7090.2 Now at the University of Texas.

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The validity of anxiety and hostility Rorschach content scores among adolescents.

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

The relationship between individual differences in defensive style and concept formation

The relationship between individual differences in defensive style and concept formation

The aggression response and the Rorschach

Undercontrolled and overcontrolled personality types in extreme antisocial aggression.

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