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TITLE
RORSCHACH INKBLOT TECHNIQUE/TEST

AIM
To assess the personality structure of the subject by using Rorschach
Inkblot Technique

INTRODUCTION
Rorschach Inkblot Technique was developed by Herman Rorschach, a
Swiss psychiatrist in 1921 to make a diagnostic investigation of
personality as a whole. It should be kept in mind that the Rorschach test
is a measure of both intellectual and non-intellectual traits of personality.
He investigated with a large number of inkblots art of which only 10
inkblots that differentiated most between various psychiatric syndromes
were selected to constitute a test. Thus, Rorschach consists of 10
inkblots each of which contains bilaterally symmetrical printed inkblots.
Five inkblots cards (Card I, IV, VI, VII) are made in shades of black and
grey, two cards (II, III) contain bright patches of red in addition to shades
of black and grey and the remaining 3 cards (VIII, IX, X) contain several
pastel shades. This test was made available for use in 1920 and was
published along with the manual named Psychodiagnostics (Rorschach,
1921). One of the important characteristics of this technique is that it is
unstructured in nature and it stimulates the subject for free imagination,
thoughts, conscious, unconscious or subconscious. Therefore this test is
known as ‘projective test’ as in this subject projects his thoughts, hidden

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desires, fantasies, fear, imagination etc. on the inkblot and gives a

response. Though Rorschach Inkblot Technique has many uses some of
them are listed below:
1. It can be used on severely depleted patients when all the lab
investigations have failed to identify any physical or structural
abnormality.
2. It can be used for psychiatric diagnosis formulation.
3. It can also be used for cross-cultural research on basic personality
structure.
4. It can be used with cases of substance addiction to psychosomatic
and functional illness.
5. It can be used to explore the unconscious motive behind a
behaviour or personality type.

RELIABILITY
The characteristics tested by Rorschach Method scores a moderate
degree of reliability is the form of internal consistency and retest after a
relatively brief interval.

VALIDITY
Several methods have been used - Rorschach findings compared with
consistent observation of behaviour over an adequate period of time.
Matching Rorschach observations with clinical reports.

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MATERIALS REQUIRED
A set of 10 inkblots cards
Rorschach Manual
Response sheet
Paper
Pencil
Eraser
Stop watch
Screen

SUBJECT’S PROFILE

NAME Renuka Mehta

AGE 30 Years
GENDER Female
EDUCATION Post Graduate
OCCUPATION Teacher

PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION

Preparation:
The materials required were arranged and kept ready. Conducive and
comfortable environment was provided for the test.

Rapport:
Rapport was established with the subject by having a light and general
conversation. The subject was made comfortable and at ease. All the

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queries of the subject were attended to carefully and resolved. The

subject gave her informed consent to carry out the test.

Instruction:
All the relevant and necessary instructions regarding the test was
provided to the subject. The subject was told about the test, its purpose,
and what it measures/assess. The subject was told that she would be
given 10 cards with colored, non-colored ink blots printed on it. The
subject to look carefully at it and respond whatever comes to her mind
regarding the form, shape, color of the inkblot and what the inkblot
resembles like. The subject was also told that there’s no such time limit
and that she is free to rotate cards in any direction she wants and that
she is free to look at the cards from any perspective she likes. She was
also told not to spend too much time on one card thinking and was
asked to finish as quickly as possible.

Precautions:
● Cards were shown in a proper way.
● Environment should be peaceful and conducive.
● Lighting and seating arrangement should be comfortable for the
subject.
● Confidentiality of the subject’s identity and result should be taken
care of.

Introspective Report:
Initially the subject was resistant about performing the test. She had
many doubts and queries regarding the test, how to do it, what it would
assess etc. All the doubts were cleared. The subject was ensured about
her confidentiality. Subject looked confused and perplexed as to how to
understand it and what to write about it. When she was told how to do it

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then in later cards she felt quite confident and at ease. The overall
conduction went good.

Scoring and Interpretation:

1. Location - ​The scoring of the location, there are 3 main location
categories:
a. Whole (W) - ​W is scored when the whole inkblot area is
perceived for the response. Whole is a whole, even a minute
area is not left out.
b. Major Details (D) - ​Includes a large area of the blot, it should
be a separate segment by itself even if the area is small, it
should frequently be chosen to attribute to a response.
c. Minor Details (Dd) - ​It should include a smaller area of the
blot, it should be an area infrequently chosen for response. It
should be an inner detail of the compact area.
d. Space (S) - ​When white space is used or included in location
of response along with black or colored area, the S is added
to the original location categories. A space response is not
scored separately. It is rather a part of W, D or Dd. Thus a
whole response with white space is WS, a major detail
response with white space is DS, and so on.
2. Determinants - ​The following alphabets are used in scoring of
determinants of response.
F = only form response
F+ = good form level response
F- = poor form level response
C = color response
CF = color dominating form response
FC = form dominating color response
Y = black dominating response
YF = black dominating form response

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FY = form dominating black response

T = Texture response
TF = Texture dominating form response
FT = form dominating texture response

V = vista response
VF = vista dominating form response
FV = form dominating vista response
M = Human Movement response

3. Content Categories - ​It is the specific characteristics of the

percept content is what the tester reports that she sees on a
particular inkblot, plot content is the scoring category used to
distinguish and classify all the objects reported by the testee
ranging from human beings to animals, nature, mythological
character.
4. Popular Response - ​A popular response is a response
determined by the frequency of its occurrence in the normal
population. A response which is given frequently in the same
location by the most of the normal population. All population
responses are considered of good form of level.
5. Original Response - ​Those responses which are not represented
frequently by the normal population are considered as testee’s
original response.

Scoring and Interpretation

Location
1. W - ​10% - the subject has scored below 40-50%. Therefore this
indicates that she has management skills and task arranging

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capacity.

2. D - ​70% - the subject has scored above 40-50%. Therefore this

indicates that she would have an impractical approach towards
things.
3. L - ​20% - the subject has scored more than 10% that means she
has a tendency of less perfections on tiny and minute things.

Determinants -
(i) M - 51%
(ii) F - 50%
(iii) FL - 5%
(iv) V - 5%
(v) C - 25%
(vi) CF - 5%
(vii) FV - 5%
(viii) M - 5%
(ix) M - 0%
The subject has not scored on this which means she doesn’t have any
inner aggression.
Responses - ​The subject has given 20 responses in total which is
normal and however responses are related to productivity, subject has
normal productivity.

Average Response Time (ART)

ART = ​Total Time / No. of Responses = 40 min / 20 = 2 minutes

The average response time is greater than 30-60 sec. Hence that means
the subject was little slow and she may also be depressed:
Average Response Time (Chromatic Cards)
= ​Total time for Chromatic Cards / No. of responses
= 77/11 = 7 sec/response

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Average Response Time (Achromatic Cards)

= ​Total time for Achromatic Cards / No. of response
= 1.85 min / 6 = 18.5 sec/response.

Thus, average response time (7 sec) is less for chromatic cards than
achromatic cards. This shows a tendency for depression, anxiety and
phobias.

Reaction Time = Total reaction time on each card / 10

= 187 / 10 = 18.7 sec

The subject’s average reaction time is 18.7 sec which lies in the range of
5-20 sec. Thus has no interpretation.

Total Reaction Time = Total Time / 10 = 187 / 10 = 18.7 sec

Response Time = 30 / 10 = 3 min

Affective Ratio
= Total response of cards 8, 9, 10 / Total response of cards 1 to 7
= 3+3+2 / 2+1+1+1 = 8 / 6 = 1.33

Experience Balance - Total M / ∑ C = 1 / 5 X 1.5 = 1 / 7.5 = 0.13

Experience Actual - M + C = 1 + 5 = 6

Animal Percentage A% - (A+Ad/R X 100) = 7/20 X 100 = 35%

L = ∑ F / R - ∑ F = 10 / 20-10 = 1

F-plus Percentage (F+%) = F+ / [(F+) + (F-)] X 100

= 6/6+4 X 100 = 0.6 X 100 = 60%

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Content = M-1
A-7

The ‘A’ on animal content is 35% and therefore denotes poor

adjustment.

Popular Responses - ​The subject has 8 popular responses which

means that the subject conforms to the norms of society and is also
somewhat creative.

Summary Chart
R=20 F+=6 M=1 D=14
W=1 F-=4 P=8 Dd=4
A=7 C=5 M=1 Fc=1
CF=1 EV=1 V=1 Alt=2
BL=2 Bt=2 CP=1 SC=1
Mn=1 Na=1 My=1 L=1

F+%=60% A%=35% RT=3 MIN

Reaction time = 18.75
Affective ratio = 1.33
Exp. B = 0.13
Exp. A = 6

Discussion:
The subject is a 30 year old female. She is married and is found to be on
a normal level of intellectual functioning.
The Rorschach protocol suggests that the subject’s thought processes
and imaginative capacity are low (RT is high). Here R=20 and P is high,
content category is normal/above normal, however the creativity in her

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cognitive skill is less (M is low). Her behaviour is entirely governed by

her emotions outside (C is high).

Her interpersonal relationships seem to be poor (H and Hd low). She

tends to suspect the intention of others and even tends to become
hostile to them (perception of blood, aggressive, animals, sword, etc.)
Her ego strength or reality orientation has declined to a significant
degree (F+% low) and her adaptive capacity is low (A% low). Her
emotional life is uncontrolled (Exp B is low and high) and Aff. Ratio is
high.

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