A program system has been developed for the quantitative analysis and documentation of Rorschach test data. The scores are taken as input data. They are read from the optical mark sheets 'RORSCHACH Form. 1' and 'RORSCHACH Form. 2' (cf. appendix 1). The processing of the test data is done in three steps.
Step 1. The test data are read by an optical mark reader IBM 1231 and written on tape.
Step 2. The program ROCHECK tests the input data of all tests one by one and data errors produce error messages. If no data errors are found, all computations necessary for the psychogram are performed and scores and resuits of the computation are written on an output tape. Anamnestic data and psychogram are also printed out. Tests with data errors have to be corrected and reread (step 1). Optionally, input data error statistics for every single test can be obtained.
Step 3. The program CONVERT reads scores and results of the computation from the ROCHECK-output tape, converts them into one record and writes this record on a library tape which can be used as input tape for the i 1].
The system is especially suitable for application in research on clinically or psychologically defined groups of persons where a lot of Rorschach-tests have to be evaluated as fast as possible and where the storing of the Rorschach-test data is desired for further processing by means of computational methods.