The Personal Sphere Model, a projective instrument developed to elicit a representation of the object-relation world of an individual and previously used with clinical populations, was administered to 310 college students. Norms were developed and component factors extracted. Seven major factors—productivity, number of family, number of ideas, number of things, number of interruptions in relationships, size of objects, and number of bonds—accounted for 86% of the variance. Criterion validity was established as the representation of interruptions was significantly correlated with scores on the Beck Depression Scale and the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale.
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