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Educational productivity and rorschach location responses of preschool Japanese and American children
Author(s) -
Takeuchi Michio,
Scott Ralph
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198610)23:4<368::aid-pits2310230410>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - rorschach test , psychology , flexibility (engineering) , developmental psychology , affect (linguistics) , perception , quality (philosophy) , cross cultural , clinical psychology , social psychology , communication , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , neuroscience , sociology , anthropology
This study compared Rorschach protocols of Japanese five‐ and six‐year‐olds with norms of CA comparable Americans, as reported by Exner. Japanese location responses profiles were characteristic of rapid mental development: fewer whole responses, and a higher proportion of major and minor details. Moreover, the Japanese provided more responses and over a greater breadth of content categories. Relatively small differences obtained with respect to developmental quality (DQ), which measures complexity and flexibility employed in responding to blots; Japanese scores on form quality (FQ), associated with conventionality, were significantly lower. However, Exner's FQ scoring format is based on conventionality of Americans' responses; the lower Japanese indices on this measure may be associated with cultural factors that influence perceptual responses and that may affect cross‐cultural understandings.