Abstract

The present study investigated whether conducting the modified Rorschach test is useful to young children who often experience difficulties in responding to the standardized Rorschach test. A comparison was conducted between using these two Rorschach test methods on children at the age between 6 and 7. A total of 52 children participated in the study. The participating examiners received five times of supervision with the written test instruction by the author; in order to make the administration consistent across all examiners. The Comprehensive System (Exner, 1993) was used for scoring each test to ensure the consistency in scoring across all raters. Also, the reliability of scoring was checked through comparing interscorer agreement. Among the structural summary variables of Rorschach test, the difference between the two test methods appeared on the only five variables : Dd, SumShd, Fd, DV1, and Sum6, SpSc. The response time to each card was not significantly different depending on the test methods. The results suggested that conducting the modified Rorschach test might not allow children to build enough rapport with an examiner relative to the standardized test or may also cause children to control themselves more on expressing their fundamental desire or negative emotions. As a consequence, It seems that the modified method will be useful to children in case of having difficulties to apply standardized method if examiner make a good rapport.