Relation of Holtzman Scores to Rigidity

Abstract

The Sanford-Gough Rigidity Test, the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, a group Holtzman Inkblot Test, and an experimenter-designed Perceptual Rigidity test were given to 116 college girls to investigate determinants of responses to projective tests and to clarify the relationship between personality and perception. Significant positive correlations between the rigidity measure, the Sanford-Gough, and the Holtzman Location, Anatomy, and Hostility scales were obtained and a similarity between these results and descriptions of the authoritarian personality was noted. Significant negative correlations between the rigidity measure and the Holtzman Color and Movement scales were found. The lack of significant correlations between the rigidity measure and the Taylor and the Holtzman Anxiety scales was considered in terms of specific needs of further research into the relation of anxiety to perceptual rigidity.