Date of Award

Summer 8-23-2014

Document Type

Doctoral Research Paper

Degree Name

Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology

Organizational Unit

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

First Advisor

Hale Martin

Second Advisor

Courtney Welton-Mitchell

Third Advisor

Michele J. Forstot Nadel

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords

Rorschach Test, Aggressiveness, Children, Statistical analysis

Abstract

The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) was developed in 2011 as an alternative to the previous Comprehensive System. The goal was to improve the psychometrics, and particularly the validity, of this assessment method. The norms for children were questionable in the Comprehensive system (e.g., outdated, low numbers of subjects) and validity studies for children were sparse. One of the indicators included in the R-PAS system, the aggressive content indicator (AgC), is intended to reflect aggressive behavior, but few studies have examined the validity of this indicator. This study examined the validity of AgC in a sample of 32 children and adolescents receiving services at a residential treatment center. Subjects' AgC scores were analyzed in relation to demographics and diagnosis, as well as ratings of aggression and conduct problems from the Behavioral Assessment System for Children-2(BASC-2) Parent and Teacher Reports. Correlations between the AgC score and BASC-2 aggression and conduct problems scores were not statistically significant. None of the correlations between AgC score and a diagnosis of Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or Mood Disorders were significant either. Given the small sample size, null results may be a result of power concerns. The lack of significant correlations may however, indicate that operational definitions of aggression used in various forms of measurement reflect different constructs.

Copyright Date

7-7-2014

Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Rebecca Dehass

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

32 pgs

File Size

273 KB

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