SPA 2023 - Evidence on the Comparative Reliability, Validity, or Utility of Rorschach Systems 1.5CEs

Abstract

This session provides an overview of evidence and issues associated with using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS), Exner’s Comprehensive System (CS), or other systems and approaches that authors have studied or written about in the last 50 years. Pianowski et al. begin by presenting the latest data exploring how R-PAS and the CS differ in their structure of responses, validity, and utility in practice. Meyer then addresses complexity in Rorschach responding; covering its history beginning with Rorschach’s own views though contemporary data on it as a formally scored variable and in the process corrects and refutes false assertions from the literature. Subsequently, Meyer et al. provide a succinct summary of all the available data comparing R-PAS to the CS in terms of internal structure, reliability, validity, and utility. Finally, van den Hurk et al. review the main trends in Rorschach research over the past five decades, calling for a more unified and collaborative approach to advancing research in the future.

Chair

Gregory Meyer | University of Toledo