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Administrator's gender and sexual content in projective test protocols
Author(s) -
Milner Joel S.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197507)31:3<540::aid-jclp2270310337>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - projective test , psychology , rorschach test , generality , test (biology) , affect (linguistics) , population , rank (graph theory) , developmental psychology , social psychology , combinatorics , communication , demography , psychoanalysis , mathematics , psychotherapist , sociology , paleontology , biology
The present data for the TAT and previous results for the word-association test and Rorschach support the hypothesis that the E-S gender combinations affect sexual responsivity on projective tests. The evidence indicates that like-gender combinations are more sexually responsive than opposite-gender pairs on projective tests. Further, there may be an overall rank-ordering of gender pairs in the degree of sexual responsivity, with the male E-female S combination resulting in the lowest sex content scores. The extent of generality of the phenomena on Ss other than a "normal" population remains to be investigated.