Correlation of clinical estimates with test scores on mental ability and personality tests

✍ Scribed by J. Watson Wilson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1954
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 218 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195401)10:1<97::aid-jclp2270100125>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

A third possibility is that these scores measure different functions in discrete nosological groups, or even in different individuals.' The authors favor this alternative, reasoning as follows: It is falacious to assume that a given Z score or F+% can be explained in terms of some constant factor which the Z or F+ 5; always measures. What is measured is a function not only '(of the measuring instrument" but of what there is to be mcasured. The Bender Gestalt Z score and the Rorschach F+Yq vary in relation to an unknown number of factors. One cannot assume that the primary variable in a specific case is '(ego strength" (or anything else) in the absence of further knowledge of the individual tested.