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The need‐threat analysis: A scoring system for the children's apperception test
Author(s) -
Chandler Louis A.,
Shermis Mark D.,
Lempert M. Elizabeth
Publication year - 1989
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(198901)26:1<47::aid-pits2310260107>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - projective test , psychology , thematic apperception test , apperception , test (biology) , perception , developmental psychology , perspective (graphical) , reliability (semiconductor) , thematic analysis , clinical psychology , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , qualitative research , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , power (physics) , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , sociology , psychoanalysis , biology
The study of childhood stress provides a useful perspective for assessing children's emotional status. Thematic projective techniques, like the Children's Apperception Test (CAT), may be useful in exploring children's perception of stress. For this purpose, a need‐threat analysis is recommended to identify those underlying needs and threats that are likely to make a particular event or situation important, and hence potentially stressful, to an individual child. This paper introduces a scoring system for the CAT based on the analysis of thematic data in terms of five need‐threat binaries, which serve as scoring categories. Preliminary data on reliability are presented.