Abstract
8 Thematic Apperception Test or 8 Apperceptive Personality Test stimulus pictures were shown to each of 40 college students randomly selected from a larger group of 503 students with the instructions to make up and write out a story about each picture. Following this, subjects filled out questionnaires in multiple-choice format, answering questions about each of their stories including a rating of the outcome of the story on a 5-point scale from very happy (successful) to very unhappy (unsuccessful). Based solely upon the stories, each of two judges rated the story outcomes on the same 5-point scale used by subjects. Interjudge agreement was .87. High and significant correlations were obtained between judges' ratings of the stories and subjects' questionnaire ratings of the same stories, for both TAT and APT and for both male and female subjects. The results suggest, at least as far as story outcome is concerned, substantial similarity of questionnaire ratings by judges of story content.
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