The relationship of undifferentiated, primary and secondary space responses to oppositional and/or mastery tendencies was studied. Rorschach records of 210 applicants to a nursing school were evaluated in a four-group design. Behavioral and ideational characteristics were set up as assumptions derived from the constructs of oppositional tendencies and mastery strivings. Significant support for the space responses to be viewed as representative of oppositional tendencies rather than mastery tendencies was found.
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