QUANTIFICATION OF TWO PROJECTIVE TESTS FOR DEAF CLIENTS.

The article cites a study that was conducted to develop an objective scoring procedure for two tests popular with clinicians and apply it to protocols obtained from a sample of deaf clients and to validate the empirically derived scores against independent ratings and client progress in a rehabilitation program. In the study Bender-Gestalt and Draw-A-Person protocols of 57 deaf young rehabilitation clients were quantified on five factorially derived personality dimensions. Researchers revealed that resulting scores were reliable and independent of non-personality variables. The majority of those correlations with 10 independent criterion ratings and outcomes were insignificant.