Educational productivity and rorschach location responses of preschool Japanese and American children
✍ Scribed by Michio Takeuchi; Ralph Scott
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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✦ Synopsis
This study compared Rorschach protocols of Japanese five-and six-year-olds with norms of CA comparable Americans, as reported by Exner. Japanese location responses profiles were characteristic of rapid mental development: fewer whole responses, and a higher proportion of major and minor details. Moreover, the Japanese provided more responses and over a greater breadth of content categories. Relatively small differences obtained with respect to developmental quality (DQ), which measures complexity and flexibility employed in responding to blots; Japanese scores on form quality (FQ), associated with conventionality, were significantly lower. However, Exner's FQ scoring format is based on conventionality of Americans' responses; the lower Japanese indices on this measure may be associated with cultural factors that influence perceptual responses and that may affect cross-cultural understandings. 'The on-line computer search covered the years 1967-1985 and employed the Psychological Information data base through Bibliographic Retrieval Services, with on-line version of Psychological Abstracts. Only 44 studies dealt with the two identifiers, "Japan" and "Rorschach." No study sought to obtain normative Japanese-American comparative Rorschach data on preadolescents.