TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-cultural validation of the Rorschach developmental index
AU - Giromini, Luciano
AU - Viglione, Donald J.
AU - Brusadelli, Emanuela
AU - Lang, Margherita
AU - Reese, Jennifer B.
AU - Zennaro, Alessandro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/7/4
Y1 - 2015/7/4
N2 - The Developmental Index (DI) has recently been introduced as a composite Rorschach measure of psychological development and maturation, which can be used both with the Comprehensive System (Exner, 2003), and with the recently developed Rorschach Performance Assessment System (Meyer, Viglione, Mihura, Erard, & Erdberg, 2011). As the DI is new, and its validity has not yet been investigated with independent non-U.S. samples, we tested the correlation between DI and age using 3 relatively large samples, 2 of which were from outside the United States (total N = 902). Other Rorschach variables presumably associated with maturation, such as complexity and productivity, were also investigated. As expected, the DI significantly correlated with age, with small variations across the 3 samples. Importantly, the correlation between DI and age remained statistically significant also after controlling for productivity (i.e., the number of responses) and complexity.
AB - The Developmental Index (DI) has recently been introduced as a composite Rorschach measure of psychological development and maturation, which can be used both with the Comprehensive System (Exner, 2003), and with the recently developed Rorschach Performance Assessment System (Meyer, Viglione, Mihura, Erard, & Erdberg, 2011). As the DI is new, and its validity has not yet been investigated with independent non-U.S. samples, we tested the correlation between DI and age using 3 relatively large samples, 2 of which were from outside the United States (total N = 902). Other Rorschach variables presumably associated with maturation, such as complexity and productivity, were also investigated. As expected, the DI significantly correlated with age, with small variations across the 3 samples. Importantly, the correlation between DI and age remained statistically significant also after controlling for productivity (i.e., the number of responses) and complexity.
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U2 - 10.1080/00223891.2014.960927
DO - 10.1080/00223891.2014.960927
M3 - Article
C2 - 25297675
AN - SCOPUS:84930926916
SN - 0022-3891
VL - 97
SP - 348
EP - 353
JO - Journal of Personality Assessment
JF - Journal of Personality Assessment
IS - 4
ER -