Abstract
A computer scoring system has been validated for scoring 17 Holtzman Inkblot Technique variables: Location, Rejection, Form Definiteness, Color, Shading, Movement, Integration, Human, Animal, Anatomy, Sex, Abstract, Anxiety, Hostility, Barrier, Penetration, and Popular. The basic sample was composed of 145 college students to whom the HIT was group administered. An expert scorer's values were the criteria for validating computer scores. Validity of computer scoring was attested by comparability of means and standard deviations, by acceptable correlations between the two methods, and by identical factor structure among 8 rotated factors. The correlation of the computer with the mean of 3 hand scorers equaled or approached the interscorer reliability of the scorers. This report presents norms for over 5,000 Ss. Normal Ss include high school and college students and U. S. Navy enlistees. Clinical Ss include Veterans Administration and state hospital schizophrenics, depressives, psychoneurotics, alcoholics, and chronic brain-syndrome patients. Cultural samples include university students from Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, Turkey, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.
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