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Rorschach Comprehensive System Data for Two Samples of Nonpatient Children From Italy: 75 Aged 5–7 Years and 148 Aged 8–11 Years

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 89; Issue: sup1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00223890701583234

1532-7752

Silvia Salcuni, Adriana Lis, Laura Parolin, Claudia Mazzeschi,

Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology

This project provides information on how nonpatient children perform on the Rorschach test, administered and scored following Exner's guidelines (1995) Exner, J. E. 1995. A Rorschach workbook for the Comprehensive System, , 4th ed., Asheville, NC: Rorschach Workshops. [Google Scholar]. Lis, Parolin, Zennaro, and Mazzeschi (2001) Lis, A., Parolin, L., Zennaro, A. and Mazzeschi, C. Italian normative data on children: A contribution to Exner Comprehensive System. Paper presented at the Society for Personality Assessment, Midwinter Meeting. Philadelphia. March. [Google Scholar] previously reported initial data for 70 nonpatient children living in Italy who were administered this instrument by graduate and postgraduate students in a 2-year research course at the Psychotherapy School of the University of Padua between July 1998 and February 2001. The current study is an extension of that work and includes information on an additional 153 participants gathered between November 2002 and December 2006. The total number of participants includes 223 individuals, 75 5–7-year-old children in the first level of elementary school, and 148 8–11-year-old children in the second level of elementary school. Exclusion criteria are described, and interrater reliability statistics at the response level for scoring segments are reported using percent agreement and iota. Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS) findings are presented.