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Perceptual rotations on children's Rorschachs
Author(s) -
O'Neill Audrey Myerson
Publication year - 1989
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(198909)45:5<809::aid-jclp2270450519>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - percept , psychology , perception , rorschach test , population , cognitive psychology , personality , orientation (vector space) , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , neuroscience , geometry , mathematics , environmental health
Perceptual rotations are responses in which the percept is upside‐down or sideways from the usual position. In a population of 79 children, ages 3 to 15, 75% male, referred to the school psychologist for personality assessment for emotional, behavior, or learning problems; 1 in 9 Rorschach protocols contained at least one rotation. Rotations were not related significantly to reason for referral, learning disabilities, more general learning problems, or organic indicators. Responses showed individual differences in complexity, awareness, comfort with rotation, and aspects of righting the card to correspond with orientation of percept. Findings suggest that perceptual rotations do not matter as much as do strategies for coping with them.