Objective scoring vs. Clinical evaluation of the Bender-Gestalt

✍ Scribed by Eugene B. Nadler; Steven L. Fink; Franklin C. Shontz; Robert W. Brink

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 247 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195901)15:1<39::aid-jclp2270150107>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

The most important conclusion of this study is that, if an appropriate rater training procedure is followed, a one-day observation period yields results as reliable as longer periods of observation. In contrast to earlier results with the MSRPP, the reliability of the HAS was found to be dependent on the adjustment level of a patient, perhaps as a consequence of the insensitivity of the HAS to the extremes of patient adjustment. However, length of observation and adjustment do not interact in influencing reliability. These findings suggest that investigators who are interested in evaluating changes of adjustment through repeated ratings of psychiatric patients may wish to use this time-saving procedure.